For businesses, LinkedIn is currently the single most interesting digital platform on the internet. Why? Because right at this moment, there is a remarkable arbitrage of organic…
The Coalition’s net zero target for 2050 was a long time coming and should (certainly no guarantees) save the Prime Minister major embarrassment at the…
Thomas Friedman's view on the appalling situation in Afghanistan provides valuable insights. Besides his piece below is an earlier useful piece on 'the morning after…
Crisis PR: Lockdowns. Feeling unmoored? Struggling with work/life balance? This crisis requires personal analysis. If you had, pre-pandemic, cleverly separated work and home, then it’s…
And should the Federal Parliament, realistically, be guiding us on cultural issues, or is that outside its remit? In which case was the Prime Minister…
We’re watching the radical disruption of journalism. Is the PR sector missing an opportunity? Disruption creates opportunity, and the lazy person’s option is to simply…
Investing in #sustainability, its legitimacy, its reputation, is one of the next big corporate affairs challenges. The trend is massive and also rife with 'greenwashing'. The…
In the second part of this interview, the current Global Chair of Aurecon and strategic advisor to Ashurst lawyers - explains to Peter Wilkinson and Liam Cox how he, working with CEO William…
Jodie Fox on repairing workplace culture. The Canberra scandals have been met with outrage and shock. What can we learn, practically, about responding to sexual or…
The Royal Commission has delivered 148 recommendations. Kasy is Executive Director at Anglicare Australia and joins Peter Wilkinson and Liam Cox to discuss the importance of better comms to…
Brittany Higgins, a Liberal Party staffer has again highlighted the terrible culture in the Federal Parliament, with disturbing allegations that she was raped in a…
Communication is the most complex leadership skill – and getting more complex. We rightly have high expectations. CEOs, directors and corporate affairs folks can learn…
We learn a lot about good and bad corporate communications by watching politicians. This week it's been Gladys Berejiklian's struggle explaining her intimate relationship with…
Kylie Moore-Gilbert is still in jail in Iran. Two years on, 'quiet diplomacy' has failed the Australian academic. We contend it's an outdated strategy, flawed…
Can Dreamworld repair its reputation? We say yes, conditionally. This week saw the company, not individuals, charged over the tragedy that killed four people. Liam Cox and Peter…
How do we video-conference better during COVID-19? Liam Cox speaks with Peter Wilkinson and award-winning film maker Fred El Harris, who between them, have over 50-years experience behind and in…
Coronavirus presents a time of unparalleled uncertainty, making it the greatest communications challenge of our time. Calming nerves will be much easier if we think…
Seems the ASX’s draft Corporate Governance Principles has set the cat among the pigeons in corporate Australia. Central to the controversy is the idea of…
Media Training: Overview Photo: Channel 7 News In this now hyper competitive environment, CEO’s must be able communicate on behalf of the company to external…
Social media manipulation, including the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the allegations of Russian troll farms distorting elections, has brought sharply into focus that people are…
(Peter Wilkinson has been elected Chair of the Global Communications Alliance, an organisation of senior independent public relations and public affairs companies) To be a…
The passionate debate and controversy around 18C, and Bill Leak's cartoon, has made a simple choice appear complex. It’s about free speech, or restricting it,…
Last week we witnessed the unedifying spectacle of Turnbull and Abbott going hammer and tongs at each other, with media commentary emphasising their mutual hate.…
Here’s a different slant on a story that’s been doing the rounds for the last week, about yet more redundancies amongst journalists, with The Independent…
I’m going to call us Public Relations folks Growth, Reputation & Change Activists. Change is the new constant in public relations. Psychologist Kurt Lewin’s “unfreeze-change-freeze”…
Of all the Public Relations skills, how importantly do you rate connecting with people? I’m a great advocate of the concept of Emotional Intelligence, as…
Andrew McIlwain, (former) CEO: "Peter and his team at Etched provided key advice, public relations input and support to Unity during the period we were…
It’s 20 years since I produced a 60 Minutes story, wonderfully reported by Tracey Curro, on Pauline Hanson’s explosion onto the Australian political and leadership…