A Sad State of Affairs
(This article was originally published in the Herald Sun on October 10 2020) I am really missing home, especially my Mum. I miss my Melbourne; the way it was before this mess. I even miss my office and all the meetings I used to have. And I sure miss singing and connecting with audiences. My…
How Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy Changed My Life
From Singing to Psilocybin I don’t drink or smoke. I’ve never taken any drugs till four years ago. Yet today, my life revolves around psychedelic medicines — heavily stigmatized substances still illegal in this country and most others across the world. How did this happen?
This Is Not Australia
The Seekers’ much-loved chorus lyrics for the iconic song ‘I am Australian’ are: “We are one, but we are many And from all the lands on earth we come We share a dream and sing with one voice I am, you are, we are Australian.” This song symbolises a nation whose people, history, culture and…
My Magic Medicine Journey
I want to start with a snapshot of how I’m probably different from you and a lot of other people. I don’t smoke. I haven’t been drunk, ever, nor do I really drink alcohol. Before this chapter of my life began, I’d never taken any drugs apart from those prescribed to me by a doctor….
There is no health without mental health
In Australia’s reaction to COVID-19, our lives are being changed profoundly and our liberties curtailed. Without consultation, by federal, state and territory governments. Few have yet fully grasped the gravity of the effects on our wellbeing of this, and what is still to come. Focusing on saving lives and livelihoods isn’t wrong. But there is…
We need an urgent taskforce to tackle the mental health pandemic sparked by Covid-19
Mental health charity Mind Medicine Australia (MMA) calls for and strongly supports all recommendations to form a Mental Health Innovation Taskforce to be immediately established. This must be established now to guide the government in planning the next steps to manage the increasing mental health pandemic triggered by Covid-19 and the recent bushfires tragedy. We…
Positive Human Collisions
I work with many wonderful teams and organisations and am always amazed at how many leaders say, “But I am not creative.” And recently, some futurists said that creativity has become the most endangered species of the 21st century. We have a broadband culture but not the creative, original thought to fill it. A global…
Innovator Attributes
Over the next decade it is estimated that up to 40 per cent of companies on the Standard and Poors index will be disrupted by rapidly advancing technologies and the entrepreneurs adapting quickly to this new environment. According to international research, up to 60 percent of middle-class jobs will become redundant due to robotics and new technologies. And…
Inclusion and entrepreneurship the key to innovation
Australia has traditionally been a highly successful and prosperous nation. On almost every important business index, we are accelerating. The stakes – the financial, social, environmental and political consequences – similarly are rising. Being lucky is no longer enough We lag well behind many other nations on innovation. We have to nurture our entrepreneurs and innovate faster…
Australia needs diversity to keep the creative juices flowing
Australia has traditionally been a highly successful and prosperous nation. On almost every important business index, we are accelerating. But the stakes – the financial, social, environmental and political consequences – are also rising. Being lucky is no longer enough. We lag well behind many other nations on innovation. We have to nurture our entrepreneurs…
