Simon Wright

Jan 17, 2025 | bmj.com | Simon Wright

Dear EditorI hope Matt Morgan and friends found their living funerals worthwhile. I'm sure they were fun but funerals they were not. As I told patients when I was a working GP and tell grieving families now, a funeral is mainly for those left behind, not those who have died. A funeral is to help those left behind say goodbye to their loved ones and to help the grieving process. Matt's 'living funeral' was really more like a self written 'This is your life'.

Nov 21, 2024 | elsevier.com | Simon Wright

By building privacy into the product design process, we can help ensure users’ personal data is secureAs our lives increasingly move online, we have reason to question how our personal data is being used and whether it’s being protected. What data has an organization collected about us? How long it is being stored, and how it is being managed? And most importantly, is it secure? This is where “privacy by design” comes in.

Oct 27, 2024 | businesstoday.me | Simon Wright

At the heart of urban development is the vital process of F&B Masterplanning—an essential element that plays a pivotal role in shaping the identity, social dynamics, economic viability, and cultural vibrancy of modern urban spaces. Whether it’s a carefully curated selection of restaurants designed to cater to a specific demographic or an outline for a vast array of outlets across an entire city and diverse population, F&B Masterplanning is a key consideration for any development project.

Aug 19, 2024 | move.com.au | Simon Wright

20 August 2024 What would Peggy do? — the cultural cringe in Australian classical music In 2012, Michael Kieran Harvey gave the 14th Annual Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address. A strong advocate for Australian art music, Michael challenges the status quo where funding tends to favour overseas artists and dead, rather than living composers. The talk raises issues still fully relevant today. Here is a full transcript ...

Aug 18, 2024 | dailybulletin.com.au | Simon Wright |Charles Sturt

The race is on to transition to clean energy. Solar and wind farm developers are inundating regional communities in the hope they will host generation and transmission infrastructure. This extra capacity is needed to achieve the federal government target of 82% renewables in Australia by 2030. The Clean Energy Council has estimated the capacity needed to come on line between 2026 and 2030 to hit this target.