Thinking from regional Australia
Working remotely from regional Queensland changes how infrastructure, access and connectivity look from the inside.
Most of the digital and policy conversations I follow are written from cities, for cities. Working remotely from regional Queensland — on client sites in London, Melbourne and further afield — puts a different set of constraints in view: patchy connectivity, distance from services, and infrastructure that was rarely designed with a regional user in mind.
None of this is a complaint. It's a useful corrective. A form that loads instantly on a fibre connection in a capital city is a different experience two hours from the nearest regional centre, and policy that reads well in a briefing paper doesn't always survive contact with a place like this.
It's part of why regional Australia keeps showing up in my thinking about both digital systems and public policy — not as a special case, but as a reasonable baseline.