Two cute quotes in last year’s WA Business Woman of the Year, Asst Commissioner Barbara Etter’s speech yesterday at the 2007 awards:
Losing your integrity is like losing your virginity – you can’t get it back.
Beauty is just a light switch away.
The awards were interesting for me for a couple of reasons. One, Hudson, one of the sponsors had a very odd ad played given that it was a luncheon celebrating women in business. They are a recruitment company and for each type of job that they recruit for they had a picture of a stereotype. The Asian geek for IT and Communications, the young pretty girl for Reception, the middle aged white male for Senior Executive. Bleah.
If I’d been their managing director I’d have sent it back and reworked! Mind you, I’d have probably been a middle aged white male and not noticed anything wrong with it. 
Or maybe they were just trying to rile the likely feminist audience… nah… not that clever.
The other thing that was interesting was how soon the news that Ben Cousins got arrested swept through the “closed” room. My boss sitting next to me got a text from a friend who had been sitting behind his car in the traffic when the cops closed in… and then all around the room people as the news hit the bulletins people started getting text messages and showing them to each other. Our newsroom found out because a mate of one of our producer’s had also witnessed the arrest.
Perth is a small town.
