Ria is managing director of a national corporate advisory firm (www.fiveconsulting.com.au) based in Melbourne Australia. Ria has enjoyed a global corporate career which took her from the safety and certainty of a small town to working in the cut and thrust of the trading rooms in the City of London, Frankfurt, Sydney and New York. This is her story.

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They Cried for Their Mothers – Explanatory Note May 26, 2021 - The words in my poem They Cried for Their Mothers, which appeared in the Iceberger News on 15th April 2021, are an evocation of my personal connections to Gallipoli and explained as follows: My Great, Great Uncle Herbert Hare and his brother Charles ‘I think of all those farm-boys’ landed at Gallipoli with the Mediterranean … Continue reading They Cried for Their Mothers – Explanatory Note
Covid Days – Messaging May 4, 2020 - With Melbourne in lockdown and the consequent de-peopling of the city, I have developed a heightened awareness of messaging from strangers, unknowns, equals, about how we are being affected by these isolating times. Like sending a radio beam into the wide expanse of the universe, or putting a message in a bottle and throwing it … Continue reading Covid Days – Messaging