Breaking the mould
The oil and gas sector usually plays it pretty safe, in The Note’s experience.
The sector’s attitude to risk is understandable. Get things wrong and the consequences can be significant. Just breaking a leg on an offshore rig can result in millions of dollars of downtime while we are all-too aware of the potential environmental threat from catastrophic equipment failure.
With that in mind, most petroleum companies play it safe with their communications – sticking to pretty pictures of oil rigs and happy employees to illustrate their points.
It was therefore refreshing to see Santos go a little avant-garde with the cover of its WA & NT Notebook received by a WA Business News operative.
The artwork, titled ‘Breaking Out 2011’ is an oil on canvas created by St Mary’s school student Madeline Pendlebury and featured at the WA Art Gallery’s most recent Year 12 Perspectives Exhibition.
Of such stuff are dreams made
Not many sports stars can bridge the great divide to cultural pursuits, so The Note was intrigued by a recent addition to the biography of coaching superstar Ric Charlesworth who was also a state cricketer, medical practitioner and member of federal parliament before pursuing coaching interests in hockey and AFL.
Having taken the Hockeyroos to gold, he now wants to repeat the task with the men’s team, the Kookaburras, in London next month. For those interested, he is speaking on Friday July 6 on the subject at a special dinner at The Rise in Maylands.
That speech might be a tad more eloquent than most sports people can muster. After all, The Note has discovered that Dr Charlesworth was appointed patron of Shakespeare WA earlier this year.
Of special interest to Shakespeare WA, it said, was his book, Shakespeare the Coach, in which he brought “the universal wisdom of Shakespeare to bear on the psychology and practice of sport”.
The Note would love to know if that comes out in Shakespearean quotes at team talks.