by Jason Molyneux | May 6, 2020 | Interchange Bench
Standing at a sheer 1986 metres tall and casting a shadow over the Alpine National Park, Mt Bogong (the local Aboriginal name for the mountain roughly translates to The Big Fella) holds the rugged crown of the highest mountain in Victoria, Australia. Mt Bogong proved...
by Samantha Cotgrave | Apr 22, 2020 | Interchange Bench
My grandfather was a Digger – a Navigator for the RAAF in WW2 in New Guinea and the Coral Sea. He saw the best and worst in men, fighting on both sides. He rarely spoke of it, but when I was nine years old, he took our whole family on a trip, by boat, to deepen our...
by Anita Ziemer | Apr 16, 2020 | Interchange Bench
I had never understood face mask wearing in public. To me, face masks indicated a cultural misunderstanding, a weird convention I couldn’t grasp. Were the wearers suggesting our pollution levels were up there with Shanghai’s, were we particularly foul mouthed, or were...
by Samantha Cotgrave | Apr 7, 2020 | Interchange Bench
It was while waiting to cross at the lights on Spring Street last week, standing (suitably) apart from a couple on my walk home, when I overheard one say, “Things will really get bad when Bunnings closes.” I wanted to step closer and join that conversation. Unable to,...
by Candice Lewis | Mar 24, 2020 | Interchange Bench
It’s 11.30am and you’ve checked your news feed one too many times this morning already. We feel your pain, away from work, under financial duress, trying to work out HR and OHS logistics around #WFH (working from home), realising perhaps there is a limit to how much...
by Jason Molyneux | Apr 24, 2019 | Interchange Bench
As the tally of seemingly meaningless statistics scrolled above my head, the reason we were all there became less clear, yet somehow it all made sense to someone crunching the numbers for management. If you’ve ever worked in a call centre, you’d understand that call...
