Chuffed to see Executive Director, Jacqui Thompson’s comments in the today’s NZBA Member Update on last night’s interview with Sarah Rowe:

Last night we held a webinar, A Chat with Clive Elliott QC. This was a fascinating consideration of the world in which we live and what wellness means to us as individuals, as a society and as a global environment. There was an irony that we were discussing these concepts while a war was breaking out, but the session reminded us that we have voices and can use them, even if the problems seem beyond us.” I must say, I felt a bit deflated with my answer to the question about what we could do as individuals to respond to Putin’s unprovoked attack against Ukraine. I’m not sure my answer was adequate but, as Jacqui mentioned, I did say: “We each do what we can in our small ways, in the hope that we contribute to a better whole

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Clive Elliott

I live and work in Auckland, New zealand. I am a serial dabbler in the arts, with an interest in writing, poetry, public speaking and painting. I’m a frequent writer and commentator on intellectual property and information technology issues. I regularly write on and lecture on the art of advocacy, both oral and written. An example is a webinar I gave in 2018 “Mastering Advocacy: Effective Written and Oral Advocacy and How to Maximise Both”. My goal as an artist is to try and capture a little piece of that magnificent natural beauty that exists around us and preserve it in a time capsule so others can ponder and experience the wonder, before it evaporates away into the endless sands of time. 

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