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Dougie
Oct 303 min read
Time for a change
I've made no plans which is simultaneously liberating and -- possibly -- the daftest-plan-ever in a long life of Dougie's daft plans.
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Dougie
Jul 206 min read
Not quite Proustian but ... you know.
They do say ... write as if your life depended on it.
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Dougie
Jun 20, 20231 min read
My life in the 'tropics'...
The dubious joys of a Canberra winter.
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Dougie
Apr 16, 20232 min read
Not all of life's an epic poem
The hero's journey ... Or not. And not quite Dante either. But, you know, IKEA on a Saturday?
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Dougie
Apr 11, 20237 min read
When I was a child I believed that love is kind ...
"People learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart" Mandela
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Dougie
Feb 10, 20231 min read
Don't mess with the squirrel
After a long day at the office, Dougie tweets away at the universe. Meanwhile, it's gone out for dinner to a good Indian erestaurant.
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Dougie
Jan 20, 20231 min read
More than moving office
The last day in this office. I am not sad to leave and will never look back.
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Dougie
Jan 11, 20231 min read
The flesh is weak (and tired). My head's in 1975 ...
Remember when you were young / You shone like the sun
... and other fairy tales.
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Dougie
Jan 4, 20230 min read
Working from home
Remote working kit. Mobile phone, typing splint & Stevie Wonder's Songs In The Key Of Life.
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Dougie
Dec 30, 20221 min read
The end of the line(s)
We prepare to relocate office. We cannot even give away these ancient relics.
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Dougie
Dec 29, 20224 min read
So near and yet ... so very very far
Which matters most -- the journey or the destination? Actually, a skilled mechanic come auto-electrician is crucial to success.
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Dougie
Oct 21, 20224 min read
Nothing About Us Without Us -- How to re-build the NDIS
I am part of a review panel considering reforms to Australia's $30 Billion, 535,000 person NDIS. Here's my speech to our first webinar.
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Dougie
Oct 18, 20221 min read
So this is positive ... NDIS Review launched by Minister
I have been appointed with others to the independent panel guiding a year long review of the NDIS. Pleased to be asked. Happy to say yes.
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Dougie
Aug 22, 20227 min read
This above all - to thine own self be true. And fix the NDIS!
Like many of us (I suppose) I have been reading about and listening to the former Prime Minister of Australia with sorrow (genuine) and ....
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Dougie
Apr 21, 20221 min read
I'm only human ...
It may well be possible that in the 'heat' of debate our Prime Minister misspoke on telly. But it's not simply "one word" as some have...
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