[Music]
I’d like to take you back to 1960 I’d
like you to remember what might have
been happening in your life in 1960 the
6th of December to be precise 826 a.m.
it’s a cold winter’s morning in South
Yorkshire and a little mining village
called one well and if you can visualize
a – up – down terraced house like you
might remember seeing on Coronation
Street and in the front room of that
house a new life was born in a in a
galvanized tin bath in front of an open
coal fire the son of a coal miner called
Steve Jackson was born at 8:26 a.m. on
the 6th of December 1960 that was me
they started my life that’s been
incredibly rich with opportunities and
challenge and crisis sadness and
happiness and it has that however taken
a significant life event for me to
reflect on how I want to close that life
what do I want to be remembered for what
do I want my legacy to be if you’re a
numerologist you’re just going 6:12 1960
that guy’s life path will be denoted by
the number 7 it’ll become the searcher
and the seeker of the truth it will be
focused on analysis awareness and
understanding the search and seeker of
truth it became quite true because in
January 1984 are joined Australian
Federal Police here in Canberra I became
a detective searching and seeking for
the truth but this isn’t about to become
Steve’s ten golden rules about how to be
remembered as the son of the coal miner
who did good
it’s not about that it’s not about to
become a rendition of Monty Python’s the
life of Brian remember that classic that
classic line well it’s simple really try
to avoid eating fat read a good book try
to take a walk every now and again
and remember to be kind to everybody of
all Creed’s and Nations I’ll let others
talk about Monty Python this is about my
story and it’s about my story that’s
been punctuated by the need to focus on
personal resilience we’ve seen 38 years
in my career I’ve really worked on how I
can make a difference I’m a leader I’ve
never been a good bridesmaid I’ve really
never been a follower I’ve always wanted
to be in the crucible of conflict in the
field leading people but to do that it
takes resilience and it took an event
last year for me to focus on what all
that meant so as I say a few words this
morning I’d like you to think about what
your journey might have been what your
legacy so mine started in earnest in
September 1979 I became the son of a
coal miner after being told you can’t do
this I joined the Royal Navy as a young
as a midshipman and then my career
progressed into when I emigrated to
Australia into the Australian Federal
Police been involved is from wonderful
opportunities I was the operational
command of his the Sydney 2000 Olympics
supporting the New South Wales Police
and I was incredibly humbled to have the
opportunity to be the field commander
and the lead investigator in the Bali
bombings in 2002 working with some other
incredible people many of whom were Ken
Burns and then of course my current role
is the global chief of security for
Qantas but the most telling point that
really starts to ground truth my legacy
was the role I played in Bali because
people who suffer acts of terrorism
seldom have a voice and on that fateful
night in October as a result of two bomb
blasts when 202 people died including 88
Australians and many hundreds if not
thousands people were injured and
affected in some other way
there needed to be a voice the role of
me as the field commander my team was to
help with that voice to work with the
Indonesian police and hunt down those
responsible like the animals they were
and bring them to justice
and that’s exactly what we did but
throughout all of that and throughout
some other challenges in recent years
you need to tap into as I’ve found and
I’ve referred to this this saying as a
personal reservoir of resilience you may
often feel that you don’t have that you
know you feel sometimes when you’re
dealing with adversity
how am I going to get out of this trough
I’ve got no hope everyone has a personal
reservoir of resilience my legacy is to
try and and provide a voice based on my
experiences what’s worked for me it’s
not going to work for everybody what’s
worked for me to help people unlock this
resilience is something we hear every
day but what is it well simply port
resilience is about dealing with adverse
events dealing with life as close to
normal as you can while facing an
adverse event or events it’s something
in my view that is not a gift of nature
you must nurture it like any other
personal attribute you have to feed it
you have to know it’s there you have to
know what food to give it you have to
know how to tap it and unlock it and
make it work for you because when you’re
failing at you’re facing adversity often
people have got no idea no hope about
how to deal with it people like me
who’ve been incredibly lucky who are
strong and resilient have a role to play
in helping people unlock their
reservoirs of resilience
the life event I referred to earlier
visited me in April last year when I was
diagnosed with high grade stage 4 lung
cancer that spread into my liver now
looking at me I don’t look like somebody
who’s suffering from a terminal illness
that I have a primary tumor in my lung I
have a malignant pleural effusion fluid
in my lung I have nine tumors in my
liver the largest measuring 6
centimeters by 5 centimeters that will
kill me so yep another adverse event but
most importantly where’s the resilience
that’s going to help me get through on
this this absolutely focused and
accelerated my drive to work out and an
advocate my legacy because there’s a
start of my journey as a cancer patient
I saw people who felt they had no hope
and what’s called an alkie it’s a rare
genetic mutation I’m the beneficiary of
cutting-edge cancer research I take
chemotherapy twice a day my disease this
week been in hospital a couple of days
this week my disease is progressing
regrettably but we get out of the corner
I’m not going to suck my thumb I never
have I never will but many people feel
they have no alternative and it’s my and
I’m never going to start a foundation
I’m not going to raise a million dollars
but I am a big person with a big voice
and my legacy is to promise to do what I
can to allow others to have a voice but
to do that I’ve had to develop a couple
of golden rules a couple of waypoints
about how I can put markers in the
ground for the rest of my life one of
those golden rules is to give yourself
options those who feel despondent feel
they have no options yeah find some time
either alone or with support to lay out
forensic ly the options you have the
good bits and the bad
and then work out what you can do to
deal with the bad ones but only control
what you can control it’s a little like
the sword of Damocles isn’t it the Greek
ode of the sword we’ve all got a sword
of Damocles it’s called life
the sword starts to hang the minute
you’re born often it’s large and often
it’s got a very sharp point but for some
of us the thread is thin but for some of
those people like me who have the
opportunity is to thicken the strand I
can’t remove the sword where I can
strengthen the strand that suspends it
to stop it dropping sooner than what it
normally would it’s about coping
mechanisms it’s about developing routine
it’s about setting yourself a path a
playbook for how you want to lead the
rest of your life I found for me it’s
about being sincere if you feel you want
to make a difference because you’ve all
been around long enough to know that
when people with a voice take the stage
a lack of sincerity is something that
the first thing to shine through so if
you want to make a difference then have
the courage to stand up and be counted
but if you feel that you don’t have that
as part of your DNA you can still make a
difference by helping others by being
there as part of a person’s social
support mechanism whether as a cancer
sufferer or as a cancer patient as a
cancer a carer for those with cancer or
any other adverse life event recently I
have been asked by the lung foundation
to become one of their ambassador’s a
spokesperson not to be involved in
philanthropy yeah I’ve got a big brand
beyond me yeah sure I work for a
fantastic company it has been
wonderful in its support and we are a
philanthropic company but this is about
my voice this is about my story having
been connected that can help others
without the voice take that forward the
lung foundation isn’t just about people
with cancer it’s about with people with
lung disease my grandfather died of coal
miners pneumoconiosis my father COPD so
it kind of it kind of fits so I see that
as a very very important part of my life
to to now move off the field of play I
don’t need to move onto the crucible of
conflict anymore I’m not going to put my
black overalls on anymore and jump into
battle with my my co-workers and fight
the good fight I’m I’ve become more of a
coach or a mentor for people who are at
the start of the journey that’s what my
legacy can be in my professional life
but also my private life now I’m
suffering dealing with some medical
challenges the overarching thing about
my desire to provide a voice
particularly for those with lung cancer
is the stigma I wish I got a dollar for
every time somebody says every day I can
guarantee someone will say but you look
so well and I never knew you smoked and
for those of you that know somebody that
suffering lung cancer you’ll know what
I’m talking about it does become quite
annoying but lung cancer kills more
people than breast cancer bowel cancer
and prostate cancer put together but
attracts a fraction of government
funding so my job is to be an advocate
to try and get a level playing field to
give people a voice for those people
like you were earlier who don’t know
what to do
I’m lucky sure I started off in poverty
I was born into poverty but I’ve been
very very lucky and I intend to to
create an environment to allow others
and myself and my family to realize a
benefit from my incredibly lucky journey
throughout all of that it’s about
developing a thing that’s very important
it’s a desire to win and a will to
survive when I was in hospital this week
I was in a mixed ward doing the triage
stuff and the lady an elderly lady in
the bed across from me was Betty from
Tamura and Betty had been in hospital
quite a few times she she’s quite
despondent and she’d given up because
her family hadn’t visited for three
weeks all Betty wanted was somebody to
talk to somebody to help her try and
bring back a little bit of that desire
to live so I said to Betty three simple
things Betty
look up aim up never give up it’s always
going to be somebody here to help you
it’s just that you may not know who that
person or those people might be until
tomorrow but never give up never give up
remember Henry Ford and reforged said
remember when things are tough think
about an aeroplane what does an airplane
do it takes off into the wind it never
takes off with the wind behind it
so in closing think about the voice and
think about your legacy thank you
you
I’d like to take you back to 1960 I’d
like you to remember what might have
been happening in your life in 1960 the
6th of December to be precise 826 a.m.
it’s a cold winter’s morning in South
Yorkshire and a little mining village
called one well and if you can visualize
a – up – down terraced house like you
might remember seeing on Coronation
Street and in the front room of that
house a new life was born in a in a
galvanized tin bath in front of an open
coal fire the son of a coal miner called
Steve Jackson was born at 8:26 a.m. on
the 6th of December 1960 that was me
they started my life that’s been
incredibly rich with opportunities and
challenge and crisis sadness and
happiness and it has that however taken
a significant life event for me to
reflect on how I want to close that life
what do I want to be remembered for what
do I want my legacy to be if you’re a
numerologist you’re just going 6:12 1960
that guy’s life path will be denoted by
the number 7 it’ll become the searcher
and the seeker of the truth it will be
focused on analysis awareness and
understanding the search and seeker of
truth it became quite true because in
January 1984 are joined Australian
Federal Police here in Canberra I became
a detective searching and seeking for
the truth but this isn’t about to become
Steve’s ten golden rules about how to be
remembered as the son of the coal miner
who did good
it’s not about that it’s not about to
become a rendition of Monty Python’s the
life of Brian remember that classic that
classic line well it’s simple really try
to avoid eating fat read a good book try
to take a walk every now and again
and remember to be kind to everybody of
all Creed’s and Nations I’ll let others
talk about Monty Python this is about my
story and it’s about my story that’s
been punctuated by the need to focus on
personal resilience we’ve seen 38 years
in my career I’ve really worked on how I
can make a difference I’m a leader I’ve
never been a good bridesmaid I’ve really
never been a follower I’ve always wanted
to be in the crucible of conflict in the
field leading people but to do that it
takes resilience and it took an event
last year for me to focus on what all
that meant so as I say a few words this
morning I’d like you to think about what
your journey might have been what your
legacy so mine started in earnest in
September 1979 I became the son of a
coal miner after being told you can’t do
this I joined the Royal Navy as a young
as a midshipman and then my career
progressed into when I emigrated to
Australia into the Australian Federal
Police been involved is from wonderful
opportunities I was the operational
command of his the Sydney 2000 Olympics
supporting the New South Wales Police
and I was incredibly humbled to have the
opportunity to be the field commander
and the lead investigator in the Bali
bombings in 2002 working with some other
incredible people many of whom were Ken
Burns and then of course my current role
is the global chief of security for
Qantas but the most telling point that
really starts to ground truth my legacy
was the role I played in Bali because
people who suffer acts of terrorism
seldom have a voice and on that fateful
night in October as a result of two bomb
blasts when 202 people died including 88
Australians and many hundreds if not
thousands people were injured and
affected in some other way
there needed to be a voice the role of
me as the field commander my team was to
help with that voice to work with the
Indonesian police and hunt down those
responsible like the animals they were
and bring them to justice
and that’s exactly what we did but
throughout all of that and throughout
some other challenges in recent years
you need to tap into as I’ve found and
I’ve referred to this this saying as a
personal reservoir of resilience you may
often feel that you don’t have that you
know you feel sometimes when you’re
dealing with adversity
how am I going to get out of this trough
I’ve got no hope everyone has a personal
reservoir of resilience my legacy is to
try and and provide a voice based on my
experiences what’s worked for me it’s
not going to work for everybody what’s
worked for me to help people unlock this
resilience is something we hear every
day but what is it well simply port
resilience is about dealing with adverse
events dealing with life as close to
normal as you can while facing an
adverse event or events it’s something
in my view that is not a gift of nature
you must nurture it like any other
personal attribute you have to feed it
you have to know it’s there you have to
know what food to give it you have to
know how to tap it and unlock it and
make it work for you because when you’re
failing at you’re facing adversity often
people have got no idea no hope about
how to deal with it people like me
who’ve been incredibly lucky who are
strong and resilient have a role to play
in helping people unlock their
reservoirs of resilience
the life event I referred to earlier
visited me in April last year when I was
diagnosed with high grade stage 4 lung
cancer that spread into my liver now
looking at me I don’t look like somebody
who’s suffering from a terminal illness
that I have a primary tumor in my lung I
have a malignant pleural effusion fluid
in my lung I have nine tumors in my
liver the largest measuring 6
centimeters by 5 centimeters that will
kill me so yep another adverse event but
most importantly where’s the resilience
that’s going to help me get through on
this this absolutely focused and
accelerated my drive to work out and an
advocate my legacy because there’s a
start of my journey as a cancer patient
I saw people who felt they had no hope
and what’s called an alkie it’s a rare
genetic mutation I’m the beneficiary of
cutting-edge cancer research I take
chemotherapy twice a day my disease this
week been in hospital a couple of days
this week my disease is progressing
regrettably but we get out of the corner
I’m not going to suck my thumb I never
have I never will but many people feel
they have no alternative and it’s my and
I’m never going to start a foundation
I’m not going to raise a million dollars
but I am a big person with a big voice
and my legacy is to promise to do what I
can to allow others to have a voice but
to do that I’ve had to develop a couple
of golden rules a couple of waypoints
about how I can put markers in the
ground for the rest of my life one of
those golden rules is to give yourself
options those who feel despondent feel
they have no options yeah find some time
either alone or with support to lay out
forensic ly the options you have the
good bits and the bad
and then work out what you can do to
deal with the bad ones but only control
what you can control it’s a little like
the sword of Damocles isn’t it the Greek
ode of the sword we’ve all got a sword
of Damocles it’s called life
the sword starts to hang the minute
you’re born often it’s large and often
it’s got a very sharp point but for some
of us the thread is thin but for some of
those people like me who have the
opportunity is to thicken the strand I
can’t remove the sword where I can
strengthen the strand that suspends it
to stop it dropping sooner than what it
normally would it’s about coping
mechanisms it’s about developing routine
it’s about setting yourself a path a
playbook for how you want to lead the
rest of your life I found for me it’s
about being sincere if you feel you want
to make a difference because you’ve all
been around long enough to know that
when people with a voice take the stage
a lack of sincerity is something that
the first thing to shine through so if
you want to make a difference then have
the courage to stand up and be counted
but if you feel that you don’t have that
as part of your DNA you can still make a
difference by helping others by being
there as part of a person’s social
support mechanism whether as a cancer
sufferer or as a cancer patient as a
cancer a carer for those with cancer or
any other adverse life event recently I
have been asked by the lung foundation
to become one of their ambassador’s a
spokesperson not to be involved in
philanthropy yeah I’ve got a big brand
beyond me yeah sure I work for a
fantastic company it has been
wonderful in its support and we are a
philanthropic company but this is about
my voice this is about my story having
been connected that can help others
without the voice take that forward the
lung foundation isn’t just about people
with cancer it’s about with people with
lung disease my grandfather died of coal
miners pneumoconiosis my father COPD so
it kind of it kind of fits so I see that
as a very very important part of my life
to to now move off the field of play I
don’t need to move onto the crucible of
conflict anymore I’m not going to put my
black overalls on anymore and jump into
battle with my my co-workers and fight
the good fight I’m I’ve become more of a
coach or a mentor for people who are at
the start of the journey that’s what my
legacy can be in my professional life
but also my private life now I’m
suffering dealing with some medical
challenges the overarching thing about
my desire to provide a voice
particularly for those with lung cancer
is the stigma I wish I got a dollar for
every time somebody says every day I can
guarantee someone will say but you look
so well and I never knew you smoked and
for those of you that know somebody that
suffering lung cancer you’ll know what
I’m talking about it does become quite
annoying but lung cancer kills more
people than breast cancer bowel cancer
and prostate cancer put together but
attracts a fraction of government
funding so my job is to be an advocate
to try and get a level playing field to
give people a voice for those people
like you were earlier who don’t know
what to do
I’m lucky sure I started off in poverty
I was born into poverty but I’ve been
very very lucky and I intend to to
create an environment to allow others
and myself and my family to realize a
benefit from my incredibly lucky journey
throughout all of that it’s about
developing a thing that’s very important
it’s a desire to win and a will to
survive when I was in hospital this week
I was in a mixed ward doing the triage
stuff and the lady an elderly lady in
the bed across from me was Betty from
Tamura and Betty had been in hospital
quite a few times she she’s quite
despondent and she’d given up because
her family hadn’t visited for three
weeks all Betty wanted was somebody to
talk to somebody to help her try and
bring back a little bit of that desire
to live so I said to Betty three simple
things Betty
look up aim up never give up it’s always
going to be somebody here to help you
it’s just that you may not know who that
person or those people might be until
tomorrow but never give up never give up
remember Henry Ford and reforged said
remember when things are tough think
about an aeroplane what does an airplane
do it takes off into the wind it never
takes off with the wind behind it
so in closing think about the voice and
think about your legacy thank you
you
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