Trains steam towards a driverless future
There's something incredibly romantic about early transport engineering. Vintage cars and steam trains have a way of drawing people...
Diona refreshes Woolloomooloo’s convict sewers
Project Spotlight: Refresh Woolloomooloo Heritage protected infrastructure, confined spaces and thousands of stakeholders in one of Australia’s oldest and most culturally sensitive precincts. That was the challenge Diona faced when they took on the technically and...
Timboon West Wind Farm
Extremely windy sites are, by their very nature, perfect locations for wind farms. Ironically, that’s what makes construction of their turbines challenging and potentially dangerous. These wind farms are, however, a large part of the Victorian Government’s plan...
3D Wall Panels feature wall creates the right “Impressions”
3D Wall Panels case study Godfreys Westfield Warringah Mall You don’t get a second chance to make a great first impression – especially when the entry to your store is the first thing people see as they walk into Westfield Warringah Mall Shopping Centre. Vacuum...
Meet Tommy Kelly, Diona Senior Project Manager
Tommy Kelly’s passion for engineering is obvious from the moment he begins to speak, whether it’s about the latest Diona project (the wastewater pipe system in Sydney’s Darlinghurst) or the motherly advice that drew him to the profession in the first place. But it...
Advertorials versus editorials: what’s the difference?
As a newspaper journalist, I've written many an advertorial in my day. I've also written many an editorial for an advertising client. They're called "plugs" and while neither is genuine editorial, they certainly have a place in print and online publications as a means...
Words I love to hate
Absolutely: As in "The Prime Minister is absolutely opposed to everything." or "John Smith was absolutely in love with the girl next door.". The PM either was or was not opposed to everything and John Smith was or was not in love. Address: You don't address a...
Quotable quotes
Quotes are one of the key elements of a news story. As reporters we’re always told to go out and get good quotes. Of course, you can write a story without any quotes in it at all, but it becomes a bit like an instruction manual. Boring as bat dung. Yes, it’s full of...
ANZAC medals discovered a century after going missing
Almost 100 years to the day since Lance Corporal Alfred Youdale landed in Anzac Cove, his great nephew Professor Graeme Clark received a heart-warming gift – the discovery of his forebear’s war medals. Professor Clark, famous for inventing the Cochlear Implant 30...
Nazi killer cows – it’s one heck of a headline!
This is what I call a great headline. Makes you click and read to find out what they're on about. What the heck! Killer cows culled. http://www.farmweekly.com.au/news/agriculture/cattle/beef/what-the-heck-killer-cows-culled/2720574.aspx Another great head on the same...
Quotes I love
"No story ever lost impact by being told in plain English." - Keith Waterhouse, in Waterhouse on Newspaper Style. “News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising. The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don’t print matter a...