The official guide is designed to give Australian voters key information about the election and voting.

Printing and batching 12 million copies.

With the Electoral Commissioner Jeff Pope.

I planned and published public notices in newspapers across the country during the election period.

Legislated candidate and polling place ads filled up to 14 newspaper pages.

Scenario: Election Day is announced. Everyone scrambles to be ready. A series of public notices are prepared and start rolling out. Candidates register and are confirmed, polling places locked in. In a matter of days after that, mandated public notices of candidates and 7K polling places need to be ready for publishing in newspapers across the country.

Proofing, coordination and version control skills come to the fore.

Second page.

Keep going.

Keep going.

Not half way yet.

A weekend of discussion, presentations and workshops about reflecting on nature and conservation.

Botanical art-style requires close observation.

The more you look at nature, the more you notice. The more you notice, the greater your understanding.

Our booklet described the topics and why they matter.

This work intersects with citizen science and other worthwhile endeavours.

Choices! Careful scheduling meant participants could attend the sessions they were most interested in.

I used AI to help design the optimal schedule for presenters, facilitators and allocated spaces in our venue.

I had end-to-end responsibility for the content and production of the flagship publication.

I collaborated with in-house experts and external stakeholders to write feature articles on topical issues.

I gave voice to worthy causes.

Proposing solutions to complex social problems is a function of effective communications.

65-page magazine of professionally produced content, 2K copies per edition, 6 times a year.

As managing editor, I took responsibility for every aspect. Publishing partnership provided financial viability.

Every edition featured articles promoting social licence to operate and ways of seeing a site for artistic and natural values - beyond just its extractive resources.

Sometimes the difficult stories are the most important.

I dedicated the last page of every edition to embarrassing moments for the mining companies. (The canary in the coal mine, if you will)

I was the managing editor of the magazine that covered issues affecting those using aged care services and their families.

Novel ways of keeping up spirits drew strong public attention.

Media interviewed couple in retirement living on social distancing.

I used big data to create a simplified, practical representation.

Comparing characteristics of locations has many applications in business and government planning. Once you see it, you know.

'Which 5 sessions would you hate to miss out on?' Surveying 70 delegates ahead of a complex event helped me design an optimal schedule comprising 32 sessions in 4 steams over 2 days (AI assisted).

Hot off the press.

Hendrik's tales now in physical form.

Personalised for me.

I collaborated with the authors of this report commissioned by ISA. (publicly available)

I worked with a team of McCrindle researchers to get this one ready to publish and launch at a national event.(publicly available)

ISA/McCrindle report launch in 2022.

I worked with the not-for-profit's scientific committee and promoted the outputs nationally.

I was the managing editor of the agency's first compliant and on-time annual report.

With key messages changing by the day - or hour - timing was everything.

AMA Rounds 4 June 2021

Using graphics helps messages cut through.

Reaching the public and the profession with timely information.

Media interview on special assistance schools.

Release of student school refusal report at Parliament House.

Strong media interest

Primary Ethics classes show students how to make an ethical evaluation of a dilemma, develop evidence-based reasons for their opinions and have respectful disagreements with their peers.

Ethics teachers at Bungendore Primary School, not far from Canberra. I have also taught at Queanbeyan schools. I can't wait to teach high school students.