Know any life and personal insurance agents? My first training workshop was full of them. That was November 1989 at Greenmount Resort, Coolangatta. My “Agent as a Business Person” workshop aimed to assist attendees with the opportunities created by the...
Is the first year of this decade over yet? Hardly. This week’s Economist leaders suggest, what the 9/11 attacks did for air travel, covid-19 has done for what we consider ‘normal’ – tests, masks, lockdowns, tracing, documentation, zoom, climate...
On Thursday, 7th February 2017, Scott Morrison, then Federal Treasurer, started question time in our parliament holding a piece of coal aloft. It was a pre-election stunt to draw attention to his Government’s commitment to Australia’s coal mining sector....
What is advice? Advice isn’t information. Information is a cog within an advice framework, much like cogs within a watch. Technically, it’s crucial to understand the performance of each cog, but by itself, information can add to the confusion of the advisee who...
The Yir-Yoront were a nomadic mob of Australian Aborigines settled around the mouth of the Coleman River on the west coast of Queensland’s Cape York. When missionaries settled on the nearby Mitchell River in the early 1900s, the Yir-Yoront people were forever changed....
