What more is there to know about the budget that hasn’t been fed to us in regular announcements over the past month? A week ago, we learned that the family benefit linked to the troubled mining tax – and guaranteed in last year’s budget - has been scrapped to save...
By Alistair Nicholas, Senior Advisor, Public Affairs & Crisis Management. Just about every Thursday I receive a pesky spam email in my inbox. It just arrived again and this time rather than immediately deleting it, I read it. All of it. The gist was that the sender...
Gartner has introduced a thought-provoking new trend. Dubbed, the ‘Nexus of Forces,’ it is a term for the perfect intersection of the four biggest technological phenomena of our time: cloud, Big Data, social media and mobility. It is a movement that is transforming ...
By Alistair Nicholas, Senior Advisor, Public Affairs & Crisis Management Practice. Oxfam Australia’s warning that it is only a matter of time before an Australian brand’s label is found in the rubble of the clothing factory that collapsed in Bangladesh last m...
By Matt Tooth. As a new starter I thought I’d write about my first impressions of Weber Shandwick. Considering I am still under probation, the smart strategy would be to blatantly praise the work of my supervisors {Insert shameless veneration of the healthcare prac...
By Alistair Nicholas. “There is gold for you. Sell me your good report.” – William Shakespeare, Cymbeline. The words “probity”, “compliance” and “transparency” are very important for government. But have they been taken too far, twisted to ridiculou...