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SO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH
KATHERINE ZIESING | CANBERRA
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THIS is my last editorial for Yaffa Media’s Australian Defence Magazine (ADM). After 15 years with the title, I’m off to see what life in a Defence SME looks like firsthand. You’ll find more than my usual number of words in here thanks to a retrospective piece on P16 and (as a final farewell) a From
In writing this, I remember meeting a lovely somewhat shy engineer as the chair- person of ADM’s Congress one year. Chat- ting in the morning tea break, he admitted that my editorials made much more sense now that he had heard me speak.
‘Uh, thanks?’ Good lord, where is this going? I think to myself, racking my brains and trying to think of what I had written recently.
‘Well, now I will be able to hear your voice in my head when I read them. It’s a very Douglas Adams/Terry Pratchett approach.’
I just got compared to my two favourite authors! Huzzah!
It did bring home to me that no mat- ter how many policies and frameworks and guidance documents we have in Defence, business is about people. The people have been the best part of this job. Thank you. ■
“THE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN THE BEST PART OF THIS JOB. THANK YOU.”
the Source on P58.
I leave the good ship
in the hands of Ewen Levick and Nigel Pit- taway who will both step up on the editorial front. You can see the whole team if you slide your eyes slightly to the right; they will continue to bring you everything you’ve come to expect from ADM coverage,
online and in print, with our awards/con- ferences, analysis, podcasts and more.
CHANGES AT THE HELM
EWEN LEVICK | MELBOURNE
WELCOME to the September 2021 edition of ADM: Katherine Ziesing’s final edition as Managing Editor. The team at ADM Group and the whole of Yaffa Media would like to thank Katherine for her remarkable
ADM Group Editor, responsible for our editorial strategy across all channels; and Nigel Pittaway is the Editor of Australian Defence Magazine, responsible for every- thing you find in these pages from Octo- ber onwards.
As our Senior Correspondent Julian Kerr notes in his piece this month, the en- vironment for specialised defence journal- ism in this country has become difficult following a clampdown on the Depart- ment’s engagement with media. Nonethe- less, ADM Group will continue our long history of providing detailed reporting and high-quality analysis of Australian defence capability – a job that is perhaps more important now than ever. ■
“THANKS TO KATHERINE FOR HER REMARKABLE CONTRIBUTIONS”
contributions over the years and wish her all the best for the future.
As Kath herself put it, the ship will sail under new leadership from the October 2021 edition onwards. Tracy Yaffa, the Managing Director of Yaffa Me- dia, is the Publisher of ADM Group; I am