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On Time Typing, Editing and Proofreading scribes verbatim or summary notes  (as required) and writes minutes and reports. We scribe dictation, interviews, meetings and discussions.

Our method of scribing is to type what the person is saying while they are  speaking. (Yes, we’re that fast!) Examples of our clients are listed below.

We scribe dictation (typing as you speak) into verbatim transcripts:

• Ongoing (since 2021): referees’ reports for NT Government departments: verbatim transcripts of referees’ comments that are then used for selection reports/recruitment processes
• ongoing (since 1996): a large number of individual clienst: testimonies, letters and submissions
• Ongoing (since 1996): different storytellers of oral histories and life stories that we have then edited and produced as self-published books
• Student – scribing lecture notes verbatim (2021)
• Financial advice consultant in Gippsland (VIC) (2007-2018)
• Psychologist consultant in Queensland (2017)
• Public relations companies in South Australia (2010)
• Darwin Consultant Psychologists (NT) (2006-2010)

Note: we scribe dictation via phone, Skype, Zoom, google.docs.

We scribe then write up selection reports for:

• Ongoing since 2001: Northern Territory Government (NTG) agencies, including: Local Government; Housing; Sport and Recreation; Health; Youth Justice; Territory Families/Department of Children and Families; Justice;  Attorney-General’s; Planning and Infrastructure; Children’s Commissioner; Department of the Chief Minister; Aboriginal Interpreter Service
• Previous 2002-2008: Commonwealth Departments: Employment and Workplace Relations; Immigration and Indigenous Affairs; Families, Community Services; Customs; Centrelink; Australian Bureau of Statistics; Office of Indigenous Policy.

Note: we scribe selection reports via telephone and occasionally via Skype.

We have scribed and written up reports and minutes for:

• Ngan Aak-Kunch Aboriginal Corporation – on site 2-day meeting Cairns (2024)
• Life Stories Australia Inc (LSA) – monthly Board meetings and the AGM, via Zoom/ on site, (2019-2021)
• Psychologist consultant in Bendigo (VIC) online (2015-2019)
• Australia Council for the Arts – on site forum in Darwin) (2018)
• Territory Families, Northern Territory Government (2017) – Zoom -procurement reports
• Office of Children and Families/MOS Plus (NT) – on site 2-day seminar Darwin (2008)
• Latrobe City Council (Victoria) – on site public meeting Gippsland (2007)
• 2002 – 2006, scribing on site in Darwin and producing minutes of meetings for: Darwin City Council; Relationships Australia – monthly meetings; Commonwealth Office of Indigenous Policy meetings; ABA National Advisory Committee, FaCSIA meetings; NT Department of Business – workshops; Mindil Beach Markets Inc AGM; Learning Lessons Steering Committee – bi-monthly meetings; Menzies School of Health Research (NT) – 3-day symposium.

Nowadays (2020-2021) we scribe all meetings via Zoom or Skype.

Information about our services

For information about our verbatim scribing, minute-taking and report-writing services, go to: Scribing and Writing.

Photograph: Darren Kane. Copyright image: Sally-Anne Watson Kane