When ‘she’ll be right’ won’t cut it: On the temptation to soldier on through a virus

What’s your automatic inclination when you wake up feeling under the weather? If you’re anything like Catherine Jeffcoat, you just keep on going. And that’s a problem.   Tuesday 3 March 2020: Day minus 02  “Oh by the way, I’ve got a bit of a sniffle”, she said. “I’ll be fine”, I text back, “I … Read more

Who owns the art on the street?

You wouldn’t use the riff from ‘Slice of Heaven’ to spruik your products without permission, so why is visual art any different? Catherine Jeffcoat looks at a recent initiative to let street artists know about their copyright protections and comes up with some useful tips for the communications profession.  Maybe you work in a small … Read more

All the scorecards being put out by our emerging election watchdogs

Voting papers are being sent out today, and lots of people say they won’t fill them out because they don’t know anything about the candidates. Respected website ‘The Spinoff’ is trying to fix that through its Policy Local tool. But it’s not the only one. Catherine Jeffcoat talks to the rest of the watchdogs. The … Read more