Candis Rhodes’ Post

Took the kids to visited Melissa Spillman (Woods) at 1 William st today for her 'Live painting' display. We were lucky to get Mels art (and babysitting) before she did this as a profession, so it was great for the kids to see her in her element!!! So many great pieces of Maarakool Art on show during #NAIDOC week- congratulations mate!!!

I am pretty exciting to be a judge for this year's EMERGING category for the WA Innovator of the year awards 2024. Its clear the WA innovation eco-system is alive as we had the highest number of entries ever, and a great mix of Industry, Universities, investors, #innovators and Government (Janet Simmons) working together. Entries closed last month and the duty of reviewing the entries has begun, my colleagues Luke Cowing Sarah Carroll Anthony Radici are the Rio Tinto judging team this year and winners will be announced late October. The Government Innovators of the year category is still open until July 31st: https://lnkd.in/gzzY9MwY

Had a wonderful night celebrating the successes of the 3ME Technology team while there were here in Perth. Thanks to Tanya Nassir Justin Bain Michael Reich Martin Kime for the invite and congratulations again

Happy IDAHOBIT day! Today I celebrate bringing your whole safe to work and supporting my LGBTQI+ friends by being an ally and championing a safe and inclusive workplace. Congrats to my brave mate Hine Kiwi kiwi for your panel role today, reminded me we have so much to do still to help create a space that is safe and comfortable and where everyone is treated like equal humans first! Human-Kindness- love it! Congrates also to the Rio Tinto team pulling todays event together- i hope we can do more events like this in the future!

Call to arms! We have to talk about mental health openly with our boys, the sports clubs we are involved in, the groups and team we are part of! Not talking about it leaves ppl feeling alone and valueless!!! As someone who loss my sister to suicide we need to make it ok to say I’m not ok right now, I need some help. And then not leave them to isolate and instead wrap our arms around them!! Ask your kids school what are they doing to discuss mental health, ask what programs they run, ask you child has anyone talked to them about how to have good wellbeing, teach them! I have a list of what gives me ‘happy hormones’ - so when I’m in the ‘hole’ of depression I can read what to do first- this is our roles as care givers!!! Do something - otherwise like the Freo Dockers we morn #heartbroken

After a few weeks of not much to say…. A good mate asked me why don’t I put the pictures up from the The Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia women in resources award night- truth is a have been sad that I didn’t win, and my pride was hurting. But one deals! - in the end I had an amazing night with my friends, family and colleagues (Joe McGinlay CEng MIET Jen McGinlay Owen Barrett Nathan Robertson Leland Le Breton Greta Rendell Kavya Kumar Celia Culverwell Julie Culverwell @emma Richard Cohen Laura Thomas Renita Grey Antonia McCarthy Matthew Bedwell ) and made a new mate (Lily Meneghel ) - so I have lots to be proud of! Best thing that happened to me in this experience was all my previous mentees contacted me to say how I helped them when they needed it- and heaps of Rio Tinto folk joined The Smith Family mentoring because of my influence- #soproud. Mentoring is a personal passion and I win because of that!

Last nights Heavy Haul conference dinner was a great celebration of the industry- I enjoyed Veena Sahajwalla talk about moving from ‘wish- cycling’ to true ‘recycling’ and reconnecting with the great friends I have made in this industry Roger Buckley Joe McGinlay CEng MIET Ockert Van Zyl

Heavy Haul conference for 2024 has wrapped up. Congratulations Informa on the event and let’s try top it next year! Congratulations to all the company’s who achieved over 25% females attendees and 10% young professionals. #hhrail I enjoyed chairing the sessions and facilitating the decarbonisation panel. Sharing learning was a clear theme and I feel like she showcased many examples of this over the last two days #collaboration

Kicking off the celebration of Women- this week we had the Australasian Railway Association (ARA) Women in Rail Lunch. Celebrating the amazing women in the industry with colleagues and hearing from Megan McCracken about her experience and advice on navigating the workplace. It sparked some great conversation at our table with our male colleagues. Leland Le Breton and Rio Tinto- thanks for creating this space and sponsoring events that celebrate #womeninrail Carmela Mucciolo MIEAust CPEng Joe McGinlay CEng MIET Nicholas Will Mark Saunders Warren Burnett Richard Talmage Natalka Walker