A sample of communications content I’ve edited or written either as a specialist communications consultant, or as part of a wider production/development team.
Strategies and plans
I will hone your carefully considered ideas into language that communicates with your target audience (or stakeholders). I can also help you organise your thinking about structure, strategies versus actions, as well as measurable outcomes and KPIs that might be linked to your public reporting requirements. Below are some other corporate strategies or plans I’ve been heavily involved in writing, or was hired as a specialist editor for the final drafts:
- Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN) Clinical Strategy 2023 to 2028
- CALHN Strategic Ambitions 2022
- CALHN Aboriginal Health Framework 2022
- CALHN Research Strategy 2023 to 2028
- CALHN Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan 2021
- CALHN DAIP 2020-2024 final 2022
- CALHN Aboriginal Patient Care Guidelines 2021
- Department for Education SA Career-Education-and-Pathways-Strategy
- Department for Education Wellbeing for Learning and Life Framework
- Department for Education STEM School-Industry Pathways 2020
- Department for Education Bullying Prevention Strategy-stage-2-evaluation 2024
- Department for Education Violence Prevention Summary Report 2022
- Department for Education Infrastructure Strategy 2025 (cover only)
- Office for Early Childhood Development Early Childhood Workforce Strategy 2024
- Adelaide Business School University of Adelaide Business Information Statement 2021
- Department for Education International Education Strategy 2020
- Every Chance for Every Child s SA Government strategic priorities
- Every Chance for Every Child SA Gov flyer
- Every Chance for Every Child public consultation booklet
- Department for Education Strategic Plan 2019
- Aboriginal Education Strategy 2019 to 2029
- Department for Education and Child Development Strategic Plan 2018
- Your child, their education, our future – Public Education Action Plan 2018
- Education for a Stronger Future, Department for Education 2017
- Department for Education and Child Development Strategic Plan 2014 to 2017
- Department for Education and Child Development 2012 Numeracy and Literacy Strategy Birth to 18
- Department for Education and Child Development Building a High Performing System 2011.
Annual reports
Over two decades, I’ve planned, researched, written, edited and project managed more than 30 annual reports, several of which have been shortlisted for best-practice awards. I can help you meet annual reporting requirements, and either take the weight off your hands for the whole process, or step in right at the end and apply my tenacious editor’s eye across your content. I consider voice, tone, consistency and apply correct style and grammar. Ranging from 16 pages to 200 pages, these are some of the annual reports I’ve project-managed, written and produced from start to finish:
- University of Adelaide’s Institute for Minerals, Energy & Resources (now ISER) for the years 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, & 2023
- Department for Education (SA) for the years 2010 to 2018 (Example 2013)
- 9 annual reports for WorkCover SA (now Return to Work SA) – no longer online
- TracSA – Trauma and Injury Recovery Annual Report 2008.
Other annual reports and accountability documents that I’ve edited include:
- SA Health, Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN) – Snapshots (Example 2019-20), World-Class-Care-Snapshot 2023, in addition to those shown above)
- Premier’s Reading Challenge SA (9 years, annual reporting document)
- Report into Serious Child Deaths & Injuries (8 annual reporting documents)
- Royal Commission into Institutional Child Abuse, SA Government Response.
Complex documents including case studies, sensitive reports & booklets
However sensitive or complex your information, you can trust me to review and edit it thoroughly, applying your house style (or best practice conventions) and a critical eye for key messages and points, media-worthy aspects and risk management. Here are some other examples of these types of projects I’ve written, edited or been closely involved with:
- Interfy-OneCore White Paper 2024
- The Glow Squad Pitch Pack, 2025-26
- The Glow Squad Adelaide Fringe Schools flyer 2025
- Office for Early Childhood Development Flying Start Workforce Grants 2025 (cover only)
- OECD Flying Start Professional Networks Grant Guidelines 2025 (cover only)
- OFECD 3-year-old-Preschool Fact Sheet (families & communities) 2025
- Department for Education, Sexual Behaviour in Children and Young People Procedure & Guideline 2023
- Department for Education, Unwanted Sexual Behaviour & Sexual Harassment Fact Sheet for Students 2024
- University of Adelaide Business School Management Discipline booklet 2022
- Western Australian Department of Main Roads, Smart Freeways Policy 2020
- Department for Education & Child Development Environmental Scan 2015
- University of Adelaide IMER Mining Capability Statement
- University of Adelaide IMER Energy Capability Statement
- IMER Mix Ex Case Study #4
- IMER Women in Mining feature 2020
- IMER Research Impact Case Study #1 2019
- IMER Research Impact Case Study #2 2019
- IMER Research Impact Case Study #3 2019
- IMER Research Impact Case Study #2 2020
- IMER Research Impact Case Study #3 2020
- IMER Annual Report 2018 (with case studies)
- IMER Partnership Profile
- Department for Education, Curriculum Development sample edited unit plan
(3-year project including hundreds of these resources for teachers) - Department for Education, STEM School-industry Pathways brochure 2020
- ASC staff magazine Submerged (multiple issues edited over 3 years)
- Australian Remote Medicine Academy Flyer 2020
- Australian Remote Medicine Academy Opportunities for Port Augusta and Spencer Gulf Region flyer
- ARMA Proposal/Prospectus 2020
- ARMA Philanthropy Prospectus 2020
- WorkCoverSA, Employers Guide Welcome to WorkCover (2011)
- The Life They Deserve PDF, Child Protection Systems Royal Commission Report (and implementation reports) South Australian Government
- Who Can Say OK PDF Department for Child Protection, formerly Families SA)
- Practice and Policy Vision and Purpose 2012-13, Families SA
- Department for Education and Child Development, Starting Secondary School 2013
- Every Chance for Every Child SA Gov flyer
- Department for Education and Child Development, A Guide to VET for Parents
- Department for Education and Child Development, Schools as Community Hubs booklet
- Department for Education, Writing Style Guide 2024 (latest of several iterations)
- Rehab Management Writing Style Guide
- Arriba Group Style Guide 2021
- Nepalese School brochure, July 2021.
Websites
Writing for the web is becoming increasingly complex. As online content writers, we consider screen reading research, simple language targeting your reader, active and direct language and structuring your content to meet the reader’s needs – plus a whole lot more. I can help you finesse your language with an eye for online conventions and guidelines, keeping plain English front and centre.
I’ve also curated, published and edited a very successful web project for the past decade – Parenting Express is a creative hub for writing about raising the next generation, and being a parent or carer to children. I have an enviable collection of memoirs, articles and poems as well as book reviews for readers around the globe.
Newsletters and brochures
Newsletters galore – once they were the staple form of business communication, now they’re an optional extra or an online standard. Whichever your preference, I can help you make those words fly! Here are just a few newsletters or brochures I’ve written and/or edited:
- Helping Families Get Back Together, Families SA
- Parent Guide to Raising a Concern or Complaint, Department for Education and Child Development
- Trade Schools for the Future employer direct mail letter, Department for Education and Child Development
- Advanced Technology Project Newsletter – Department for Education
- Australian Curriculum newsletter for schools – Department for Education and Child Development
- Other Person Guardianship Families SA
- School of Languages brochure, Department for Education and Child Development
- Research and Innovation newsletter, Department for Education and Child Development 2012
- Right Bite newsletter – Department for Education and Child Development
- Newslink – WorkCover SA – quarterly newsletters for employers and health providers x 7 years writing and project management (no longer online)
Magazines and articles
I started my career as a music journalist (about 50 interviews and reviews) and enjoyed a two-year stint as editor/founder of a 24-page arts/culture magazine. I’ve lost count of how many articles I’ve written for publications like the quarterly Adelaide Hills Magazine (4 years x quarterly 4-page features on kids’ playgrounds plus features on topics like education), published features for ‘trade’ work health/safety magazines/websites (weekly interviews with injured workers), property-related and renovation feature articles in the weekly Toop&Toop magazine (3,000+ upmarket home descriptions), numerous features including for Home Beautiful magazine, right through to memoirs published in literary journal Overland and MamaMia (online platform) and in the book, The Heart Will Find A Way.
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