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Communications + Media Manager | Storyteller | Creative

Values-driven media and communications strategist, storyteller, and creative with more than 20 years’  demonstrated newsroom, corporate affairs, government and non-government experience. Widely recognised for resourcefulness, care, and interpersonal skills. A proven record in leading media relations to grow reputation and connection through meaningful engagement. Former journalist.

Department for Infrastructure and Transport •

'Slow down for a breakdown' to keep roadside workers safe

A new education campaign is calling on drivers to ‘slow down for a breakdown’ ahead of a new law to better protect roadside service workers.From Monday 19 May motorists will need to reduce their speed to 25km/h when travelling past stationary tow trucks, vans and other breakdown services vehicles which are stopped at the roadside and displaying flashing amber lights. The reduced speed limit will also apply when passing bollards or cones that have been set up around a vehicle...
Department for Infrastructure and Transport •

Stronger barring orders to keep commuters safe

Tougher powers to crack down on criminal and anti-social behaviour on public transport – including indefinite bans for passengers - will soon come into effect, boosting safety and security across the Adelaide Metro network.  In a national first, from 1 July the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport will have the power to ban passengers indefinitely from public transport if they have been charged with offences involving violent acts.
Department for Infrastructure and Transport •

New boating strategy launched to boost water safety

The State Government has today released the South Australian Recreational Boating Safety Strategy 2025-2030, to help combat irresponsible and dangerous behaviour across the state’s coastal and inland waters.The strategy outlines 25 key actions across five priority areas to improve safety on our waterways.Tragically, three lives are lost on average in South Australian waters each year from boating-related drownings.The state-first strategy includes cracking down on dangero...
Department for Infrastructure and Transport •

Reconciliation in action: Driving opportunities in remote communities

On Bardi Country, about 220km from Broome in the Kimberley, lies the small Aboriginal community of Ardyaloon (One Arm Point). For travellers, it’s a remote stop at the northernmost tip of the Dampier Peninsula. For Larsen Clements, it’s home.The mechanic-turned-Senior Program Support Officer draws on his upbringing among a population of only a few hundred people to help all he meets through On The Right Track.
Department for Infrastructure and Transport •

Don't become a statistic: Craig's plea to road users

Retired SA Police Senior Constable Craig Warman has seen horrors on southern roads he hopes others never will.The cabin of a car crushed in a high-speed head-on collision at Aldinga – single fatality. Debris strewn 400 metres after an airborne vehicle clipped a truck and slammed into an embankment at McLaren Vale – serious brain injury.A station wagon sliced lengthways down the passenger side on impact with a stobie pole at Darlington – single fatality.
Department for Infrastructure and Transport •

Sisterhood on track to achieve gender balance

A record number of women are in the driver’s seat on Adelaide railways as more females make a career move into public transport.Former flight attendant Rhiannon Godlevski swapped flying for train driving nearly two years ago, and now she helps carry 38,600 daily commuters along six Adelaide Metro lines. The mother-of-one is among 35 females who make up about 20 per cent of the network’s 172 train drivers – up by 775 per cent from four women three years ago.
Centacare •

Fond farewell for heart our heart and soul

After three decades at Centacare, inspiring courage and belief in others, Executive Deputy Director Pauline Connelly will retire on Friday and farewell the profession that has shaped her life.

It was in the family chook shed, in the late 1960s, that Pauline Connelly found her purpose.

Australia was waging a war on hunger and Pauline, then in primary school, felt compelled to help.

So, she started a club named after Robinson Crusoe, a fictional Englishman marooned alone on a tropical island fo
Centacare •

National Reconciliation Week: Finding strength in stories

Trent Wingard grew up learning from his grandmother Barbara Wingard, through stories that empowered communities and made Aboriginal people stronger.

It was through this bond that Trent learned to embrace his identity as a fair skin Ngarrindjeri, Boandik and Kaurna man.

‘’I am very light skinned compared to Dad and my brother and there were times when it really got to me,’’ he said.

‘’I would have long conversations with Grandma about it and she would say, ‘It doesn’t matter how much milk you
Centacare •

Faces of hope: How Bec and Atak are inspiring change

Case manager Atak sees his younger self in the people he meets through Centacare’s Outer North Youth Homelessness Service.

Their stories take him back to the year 2000 when, aged 15, he began couch-surfing with friends.

After fleeing civil war in South Sudan, Atak, who has nine siblings, had recently migrated to Adelaide with his family when he left home in search of freedom and space.

He was instead confronted with the harsh reality of youth homelessness and its associated risks.

‘’Every da
Centacare •

Men's workers step up for change

For decades, men have been comparatively absent on the frontline of social services, but a band of brothers at Centacare is changing that.

When Stuart Andary entered the workforce, he did as he was expected and forged a career in the male-dominated world of commerce.

‘’I come from a generally privileged upbringing and almost the default from that was go out and be a professional that makes a lot of money,’’ he said.

‘’I found myself uncomfortable and disenfranchised by that world but didn’t r
Centacare •

Power Up Online to help students navigate digital life safely

Centacare has partnered with Port Adelaide Football Club and CatholicCare NT to produce much-needed online safety packages for schools across South Australia and the Northern Territory.

Funded by the Australian Government’s $9 million Online Safety Grants Program, `Power Up: Online’ will use sport as a hook to connect with secondary school students in metropolitan, regional and remote communities.

Working with AFL and AFLW players, the co-designed eLearning modules will empower students and yo
portadelaidefc.com.au •

Port unveils Bob Quinn inspired Anzac Round guernsey

AT home, on the football field, in business, and on the battlefields of war, Bob Quinn lived by one mantra: Always give more than anyone else.

On Saturday, Port Adelaide will use Quinn’s words – concealed inside the team jumper – as a benchmark for on-field virtue against West Coast.

In salute to the Rat of Tobruk’s courage, leadership and devotion in battle, the phrase appears on the inside back collar of the club’s ANZAC Round guernsey.
portadelaidefc.com.au •

Major Badcoe's family to present Peter Badcoe VC Medal

Dubbed 'the galloping major' in the Vietnam war, Major Peter Badcoe was always on the go, repeatedly performing extraordinary feats.

"He lived and died a soldier," said Gillian Smith of her uncle whose acts of courage under fire earned him the Victoria Cross, the military’s highest honour for bravery.

"We are very proud of him, and when it comes to Anzac Day, it’s always very poignant because it falls not that long after he died."
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Media and public relations

Recent examples of earned and reactive media coverage.

PHN Country SA Newsletter •

Leading with lived experience - Country SA PHN

Darren Smith knows firsthand the belief that feeling understood can instil when dark thoughts take over. ‘’The most important and beneficial part of my recovery was my peer support worker who had a lived experience of mental health,’’ he says. ‘’He was compassionate, non-judgemental and empathetic. I felt connected, understood and valued.’’ Inspired to play the same role in others’ lives, Darren is undertaking CHC43515 Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work in Port Lincoln.

The nationally re
portadelaidefc.com.au •

Power to End Violence Against Women Program visits 150th school

Ollie Wines engages with students from Ocean View College - the 150th school visited by the PTEVAW program. Image: Michael Sullivan.

POWER Community Limited’s (PCL) Power to End Violence Against Women (PTEVAW) program has reached a new milestone with the team delivering the program at its 150th school on Thursday.

Developed in 2016 by PCL, major partner Centacare Catholic Family Services, and the Department of Education, the PTEVAW program has since garnered national recognition for its innova
InDaily •

Young, pregnant and homeless: the hidden face of SA's housing crisis

Many of the at least 30 women on the waitlist have histories of domestic violence, significant family breakdown, neglect, sexual, physical and emotional abuse, or mental ill-health.

They are all aged under 25 and are experiencing or at-risk of experiencing homelessness in the months leading up to and after birth.

“They might be under the guardianship of the minister… or there’s a lot going on in their own families, which means their families are not able to support them the way that others mig
ABC News •

Lived experience of mental illness paves way for career helping others

Country South Australians who have struggled with mental health issues could be key to helping others through their own battles.

Support service Centacare is expanding a training program that calls for people with "lived experience" of mental health challenges to become peer support workers.

Trainer Em Temple-Heald said they wanted more country-based peer support workers to help address a skills shortage in regional mental health services.

"Sometimes people are being turned away from hospital
InDaily •

High quit rate for child protection social workers

Data provided to InDaily shows 30 out of a total 170 social worker positions are vacant within the Department for Human Services’ (DHS) child and family support services division.

Over the past two years, that section of the department has experienced an average social worker turnover rate of about 20 per cent.

The department attributes the high vacancy and churn rate to a “severe” nationwide allied health worker shortage linked to an ageing population and changing community needs.

It is now
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Publications

Responsible for the editorial direction, content and project management of the following documents:

Social media

Led, planned, developed and managed content for the following digital and social media accounts, up until late September 2023.

Social media - augmented messaging

Centacare - LinkedIn

Centacare - Instagram

Centacare - Facebook

Centacare - SoundCloud

Centacare - Twitter

Centacare - website content creation and management

Augmented messaging including story carousels, reels and stories created for social media.

Video art direction and script writing

Examples of videos I have overseen.

Breathing Space - supporting the ‘forgotten’ women

Power to End Violence Against Women marks major milestone

Managers’ Commissioning Ceremony

International Women’s Day 2021

Celebrating Harmony Week

Life on the front lines of community services