Posts tagged Amanda Millar
Ces Says... Lessons on communication from the late Celia Lashlie

There are too few leaders and advocates who truly give truth to power. We look to those people whose vision isn’t some template or abstract concept. If we’re to change, we need inspirational communicators who truly lead us. Who hear us. Who get us. Who speak to us.

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Thanks for being part of our team, Oprah!

If only there was an Oprah around when I was a 17 year-old cadet reporter decades ago. Her words would have given me the power to shut down and report a predatory boss.

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The Most Important Assignment of My Life

I thought I’d seen a lot of suffering and social ills in my work as a TV current affairs reporter and documentary maker but Celia taught me so much more about listening, compassion, advocacy and integrity. It’s an over-used word but if ever one person represented integrity, Celia Lashlie was it.

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The 'Outing' of Amanda Millar & Co

I now realise it wasn’t so much admitting to others that I was working on the ‘dark side’, as journos call it but rather admitting it to myself. After all I had spent more than 30 years in TV news and current affairs. And I loved it. I lived and breathed it. It was a drug and it was hard to pull the needle out of my arm.

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