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In Conversation: Corporate Activism, Reputation, Trust & Climate Targets

In Conversation: Corporate Activism, Reputation, Trust & Climate Targets

Very Public Affairs Podcast, Centre for Corporate Public Affairs, 06 May 2021

On this episode of In Conversation, Llew Gartrell, Senior Manager Government Relations at Stockland, and Melanie McMillan, Senior Associate at the Centre for Corporate Affairs, join the Centre's Executive Director Wayne Burns to discuss the top news stories from March and April 2021.

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Politics, Leadership, and Public Policy with Peter van Onselen

Politics, Leadership, and Public Policy with Peter van Onselen

Very Public Affairs Pod, Centre for Corporate Public Affairs, 31 March 2021

In this episode of the Very Public Affairs Podcast, academic, journalist, and commentator, Peter van Onselen, sits down with the Centre's research assistant, Georgio Platias, to talk about the big challenges and opportunities facing Australia in the next year. Peter also analyses what 'good' leadership is,...

In Conversation: Pandemic communication, corporate messaging & social media, and working during a lockdown

In Conversation: Pandemic communication, corporate messaging & social media, and working during a lockdown

Very Public Affairs Podcast, Centre for Corporate Public Affairs, 17 March 2021

In this episode of In Conversation, Executive Director of the Centre, Wayne Burns is joined by Alison Melville, Associate Director, Corporate Affairs Australia-New Zealand at Bristol-Myers Squibb. Alison discusses corporate communication during a pandemic, the role of ‘good’ science communications,...

In Conversation: State of government relations, social media & evidence-based discourse, and corporate reputatio‪n‬

In Conversation: State of government relations, social media & evidence-based discourse, and corporate reputatio‪n‬

Very Public Affairs Podcast, Centre for Corporate Public Affairs, 23 February 2021

On this episode of In Conversation, Lachlan Rees, Manager Government, Industry & Public Policy Group Corporate Affairs, Suncorp joins the Centre's Executive Director Wayne Burns to discuss the top news stories and developments in early 2021.

Listen to this episode as Lachlan and Wayne discuss how...

Predictions for 2021

Predictions for 2021

Very Public Affairs Podcast, Centre for Corporate Public Affairs, 04 February 2021

In this episode, Centre Analyst Tristan Aliferis interviews the Centre's Executive Director Wayne Burns, on the five predictions he has made for the corporate public affairs function in 2021, along with a review on his 2020 predictions.

Wayne's predictions for 2021 are:

1) Managing issues...


Reflecting on 2020, and what challenges await practitioners in 2021?

Reflecting on 2020, and what challenges await practitioners in 2021?

Very Public Affairs Pod, Centre for Corporate Public Affairs, 09 December 2020

In the final episode of Very Public Affairs for 2020, the Centre's Executive Director Wayne Burns discusses how corporations have fared this year, how the public's level of trust has changed, how will corporate leadership continue to change in 2021, and what should be on our radar for the year...

Big tech, science communications, and corporate values during COVID

Big tech, science communications, and corporate values during COVID

24 November 2020

On In Conversation, we discuss the recent moves in the United States to regulate big tech, the importance of science communications and what lessons can be learned, and how can the corporate public affairs function adapt to working from home.

Joining us for this episode are two experienced...

Corporate responsibility, women in leadership and public interest journalism

Corporate responsibility, women in leadership and public interest journalism

10 November 2020

In the Centre's first episode of In Conversation, Executive Director Wayne Burns is joined by Cathy Bolt, Media and External Affairs Manager Corporate Affairs at Wesfarmers and Peter Habib, Executive Manager, Enterprise Services Communciations Marketing & Corporate Affairs at Commonwealth Bank of...

Preserving organisational trust with Professor Nicole Gillespie

Preserving organisational trust with Professor Nicole Gillespie

13 July 2020

In this episode of Very Public Affairs, the Centre's Executive Director Wayne Burns is joined by Professor Nicole Gillesipe, KPMG Chair in Organizational Trust and Professor of Management at the University of Queensland Business School to discuss how organisational design affects trust, and how organisations can...

Social licence to operate in 2020 with Wayne Burns

Social licence to operate in 2020 with Wayne Burns

04 March 2020

The Centre's Executive Director Wayne Burns talks about what it means for an organisation to have a social licence to operate: how it is has changed over time, how it's measured and lost, and the relation social licence has to corporate responsibility.