Latest articles by Rhonda Dredge
Good at reading customers
There’s a secret little corner in Docklands that just a few people know.
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Keeping up standards
By Rhonda DredgeIf there’s a fire in a building or an emergency of some kind you need to know where the exit is quick smart and a fire hydrant must be handy as well.
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Media moment for pier
By Rhonda DredgeCentral Pier is the centre of life for several businesses and a 100-year-old heritage structure; one of the last of its kind in Docklands.
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The romance of shipwrighting
If he had to choose a tool out of the shipwright’s toolkit, Christian Jones enjoys wielding the wedge.
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Longing for the Pacific
It's lunchtime down in the financial sector and young bankers are taking advantage of the rare sunny sky to promenade by the water.
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Role model for cycle power
All around Docklands share cars are waiting - in high-rise car parks and on side streets - to be picked up by their next user.
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Corporate comedy deals with big issues
Everyone wants to be a comedian but not everyone gets a chance, particularly when your day job is in loss prevention or merchandise management.
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Burpies on Collins
Not all financial people sit around at lunchtime, plotting their next promotions or lurking by the docks with a smoke.
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Eye to eye with a fishmonger
Chinese diners have a keen appreciation of seafood and the Australian industry has been adapting to the demands.
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A colourful gift for Malawi
A container painted in a freeform modernist style left Docklands last month with large African portraits to guide it on its way across the world.
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A tankerman on leave
Ports were once dangerous places and seafarers were away from their families for 10 months at a time so a little bit of Christian attention didn't go astray.
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The impact of the Royal Commission into banking is beginning to filter down to street level as officers at the NAB are briefed on issues raised about customer hardship, loan defaults and farm debt mediation.
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Going home on the ferry
The water is inky and reflecting the colours of the boats. The sun is gleaming in the western sky. A friendly ticket guy is waiting with a joke. The setting is almost too good to be true.
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Corporate kids on the move
By Rhonda DredgeParents are happily bringing their children to corporate offices at the ANZ, NAB and Latitude during school holidays, making the financial sector in Docklands a popular place to work.
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The gondolier’s song
By Rhonda DredgeA gondola stands out among the yachts moored on the river, its dark archaic bow suggestive of pleasure, palaces and song.
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Swan with a profile
By Rhonda DredgeWho am I? Swan L70 has stopped by the water’s edge to ponder this existential question while digging for grub at Australia Wharf.
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A better world might begin soon
Writers deal with painful truths, and the chapel at Mission to Seafarers will open up its doors in August and September so the literary community can have its say about everything from abuse to self harm.
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