The Most Important Assignment of My Life
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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Why Work May Be Killing You
Why Work May Be Killing You

We spend more of our time working than doing anything else and yet it’s been found that these hours, on average, are the least happy of our lives. Work-related stress is one of the major causes of illnesses in the West. 

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The 'Outing' of Amanda Millar & Co
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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