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Co-creation and the new world of marketing
Written with Michaela Jackson Are you one of the thousands of people around the world in the past couple of days who created your “A look back” Facebook movie? Did it make you cry? Or maybe laugh at...
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Raise Your Wallet on ANZAC Day
The Governor-General promotes a beer ANZAC Day and its meaning is looking as if it is simply a brand opportunity for commercial businesses. Although it may look that way, I would argue that ANZAC is...
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Belle Gibson, the inspiration industry, and the willing suspension of disbelief
When I stay in a hotel, there is a tacit agreement that I (the guest) will pretend to not know that someone slept in the bed and used the room before me, and in return they (the hotel) will do...
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Our Hate-Love Relationship with Alcohol
In the 2015 Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE) Annual Alcohol Poll, 34 per cent of Australians said that they drink to get drunk, 43 per cent said they had vomited as a result of...
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Resistance is (mostly) futile: How buying nothing is harder than it looks...
While there are thousands of people all over the world taking part in the “Buy Nothing” movement, along with a whole range of other groups of people doing what they can to reduce consumption,...
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The rise of American authoritarianism
Such an interesting thesis by Amanda Taub on Vox, and so much more cogent than the explanation for the current political climate as simply “anger”. This could be just as relevant for Australia (the...
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Desire, luxury and consuming our identity
Recent news that consumers in Adelaide are willing to pay $400 for a taste of Wagyu steak sounds ridiculous, but in reality, wanting something that others in your particular group can’t have is part of...
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The push and pull of an all-consuming life
Do you ever get the sense that we live in a culture of gratification that says we should submit to our every whim, while at the same time demands we disavow our desires? On one hand, Nigella tells us...
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Wealthy people tend to think that everyone else is as wealthy as they are
Wealthy people may be likely to oppose redistribution of wealth because they have biased information about how wealthy most people actually are, according to research published in Psychological...
View ArticleWe live in extraordinary times
As we are regularly being told at the moment, we live in extraordinary times. After an unprecedented bushfire season – followed by our most populated cities being enveloped in smoke – we are now...
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