Exports made delicious
I know very few people who don’t like eating and drinking. I was therefore very impressed with the recent competition run by the Association of Coffee and Tea of Hong Kong to promote Kam Cha, …
The problem with risk
I have a friend who carries around a large handbag everywhere, yet never has enough room in it to fit even small things she has bought. This is because in addition to the usual arsenal …
The more warts the better
One of my favourite aspects of editing Dynamic Export is having case studies. Whereas the main article is usually an instructive piece, the case studies represent a working example of how things do and don’t …
Wounding the sacred cash cow
Now that tensions have eased over the Indian student attacks, I thought I’d approach the topic to stimulate a real discussion about the issues at hand.
First, and I shouldn’t need to say this but maybe …
Forget books, real culture is in travel
Last month I had the pleasure of attending the Australian Embassy’s ‘Australia Day in Spring’ party in Tokyo. Thousands of guests representing government and business, from Australia, Japan and several other countries, visited the Embassy …
Informing the Informers
Earlier this week I presented at the GreenBizCafe on the topic ‘Green Business and the Media’. The premise of my talk was to advise green business owners on how to pitch their business to interest …
What slum-dwelling will teach you
Director Danny Boyle’s latest effort, Slumdog Millionaire, picked up a few Academy Awards yesterday, including Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay (from the book Q&A by Vikas Swarup) and the big one, Best Picture.
If you haven’t …
Between the Lies
I’ve just finished reading an excellent book by Andrew Keen called The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy. Quite apart from the alarmist title, it was …
The Australian Apprentice
NSW secondary institutions and students last month received the results of the 2008 Higher School Certificate. For the 13th consecutive year, James Ruse Agricultural High School took the top spot, calculated by the school that …
