The frightening thing about the Murray-Darling Basin Authority’s current efforts is that they apparently spent about $60 million while ignoring almost every lesson about how to undertake consultation.
How to say no to clients and bosses: the PR practitioner as rebel
Delivered to the PRIA National Conference, Darwin, October 25 2010
The Manichean error
Notes from an ethics panel at the PRIA National Conference, Darwin, October 2010.
Come in Spinner: The eternal PR operation
For an organisation which prides itself on its millennia-long view of the world, heaven and all things in between, the Vatican certainly spends a lot of time focussed on day to day public relations.
Come in Spinner: A sense of perspective
The more detailed online media monitoring statistics become, the greater sense of perspective we get about what people see as important.
Come in Spinner: Who was being looked after?
Tony Abbott's brave offer to go on patrol in Afghanistan was doomed.
Come in Spinner: The PR justification for toxic workplaces
One of the PR industry’s most problematic activities is dreaming up justifications for toxic workplace practices imposed by psychopathic managers.
Come in Spinner: The classic art of Opposition
The old tactics of Opposition governments might have some advantages for modern Oppositions.
Corporate storytelling: an interview
An interview with Noel Turnbull by Yamini Naidu of One Thousand and One organisational storytelling.
Come in Spinner: Words, sticks and stones
One of the great achievements of the post-World War Two consensus – the moderation of political language – is starting to unravel a little bit.