Libby Fordham
Communications & Events
Libby Fordham
Communications & Events
Have you suddenly found you have a junior working on your media relations? Is your real story buried in the fourth paragraph of your press release? Have you spent thousands on media training only to find you never get an interview? Is your competitor getting coverage everywhere but you can't make it off the editorial fax?
A public information campaign that we definitely need, Prime Minister Rudd? To tell us about the misinformation regarding Australia's mining supertax, you say. Professor David Sless sends out a big thank you to the Australian Prime Minister via David's blog.
Community commentator and Founder of Neighbour Day, Andrew Heslop, was today awarded the 2010 Westpac Kookaburra Award, in the individual category, for services to community. The announcement was made today at the Communities in Control Conference, held in Melbourne, Australia. This event is Australia's largest community conference. For more information on Andrew's award, please download the press release.
Read more: Andrew Heslop recognised for services to community
If you're thinking of touring or launching in Australia, then it's probable that you will do very well here. Australian is still the land of milk and honey. Make it here and you'll get a following for life! Australians are a unique bunch; into our sport, travel, arts, technology, music and free open spaces.

Andrew Heslop, Australian based commentator, community advocate and founder of Neighbour Day, made the following comments regarding the push for national legal recognition for same-sex couples.
Read more: Overdue for national Australian recognition for same-sex couples says Heslop
I read the paper this morning with the view of trying to figure out what stories they chose to leave out. I saw everything there which was a) going to make me buy the edition, b) cause me to turn the pages and c) hopefully get me to buy the one tomorrow. Sadly, it left me cold. It just wasn’t me they were catering for. They were thinking of the broader community and making it something for everyone. Unfortunately I, like many others, are getting much more selfish about how I part with my cash and the information I get for it. Enter the people who are supposed to be generating the stories.
Read more: Releasing the Past - why PR has lost its relations with the public
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