(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…