Author: Comms Room Staff

8.7M Funding for Independent Cinemas

158 independent cinemas across Australia will share in more than $8.7 million to keep their doors open, under the first batch of the Federal Government’s...

New appointment and promotion at Kicker Communications

Kicker Communications has announced the appointment of Sweta Sewa and the promotion of Rochelle Cervantes, marking a year of significant growth for the strategic communications...

The time to be a wine writer may have never been better

With the South Australian wine industry displaying remarkable resilience and diversity, the time to be a wine writer may have never been better. Against that...

Motorola Solutions Enhances Communication Across a Boundless Forest Landscape in New Zealand

A new digital radio system from Motorola Solutions is helping New Zealand’s City Forests to work more safely and efficiently while complying with COVID-19 work...

Kantar Public hires government comms director in Australia

Kantar’s public policy division, Kantar Public, has appointed Craig Donovan as its first national director, government communications within the Australia business. The move follows the...

Connecting with First Nations people in care with culturally appropriate communication cards

In NAIDOC Week, Dementia Support Australia has released a unique set of culturally appropriate communication cards for use when caring for an Aboriginal and Torres...

Horizon add to gov communications campaign panel

Horizon Communication Group has been appointed by the Department of Finance to the Government Communications Campaign Panel, as well as announcing new hires. Award-winning, independent...

LG Electronics Australia appoints The Works for brand communications

Capgemini’s The Works has been appointed by LG Electronics Australia to its brand communications account. The appointment includes LG’s entire portfolio, including home appliances and...

ARIA & PPCA appoint Tessa Kerans as marketing and communications manager

The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) and Phonographic Performance Company of Australia (PPCA) have announced the appointment of Tessa Kerans as the incoming marketing and...

Channel Nine breaches political advertising rules

Swan Television & Radio Broadcasters Pty Limited (Nine Network) has breached the rules for broadcasting political advertising by not properly identifying to the audience who...

COVID-19 telco principles fail to adequately protect telco consumers: ACCAN

The recent renewal of the telco COVID-19 principles by the telecommunications industry is a symbolic effort but will not sufficiently protect telco consumers, according to...

Zoom to Acquire Kites GmbH to Help Enhance Zoom’s Machine Translation Capabilities

Zoom will use Kites’ technology to offer multi-language translation capabilities for Zoom users. Zoom Video Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZM) announced it has signed a definitive...

Facebook expands Local Alerts to certain agencies across Australia

State-based health, law enforcement and government agencies are now able to issue localised alerts to their residents using social media platform Facebook. The social media...

BAI Communications accelerates its growth trajectory by agreeing to acquire US telecommunications infrastructure leader Mobilitie

BAI Communications (BAI), a global communications infrastructure provider, has agreed to acquire Mobilitie, the largest privately-held telecommunications infrastructure company in the United States. This acquisition...

Warburton to leave chief marketing post at Audi Australia

Audi Australia’s chief customer and marketing officer, Nikki Warburton, will leave the automotive group in July. Paul Sansom, managing director of Audi Australia said of...

ACMA To Launch National Gambling Self-Exclusion Register in 2022

Australia’s first national self-exclusion register for online and phone gambling has taken a major step forward with the appointment of Engine Australia (Engine) to deliver...

Keeping Australians Safe Online 23 June

The Morrison Government has welcomed the passage through the Senate last night of the new Online Safety Act. The Act provides stronger powers for the...

Crackdown on financial services marketing: Kalkine companies pay $350,000 penalty

Financial services research companies Kalkine and Kalkine Media have paid infringement notices of $251,400 and $100,800 respectively for breaches of Australia’s telemarketing and spam laws....

Minister welcomes ABC Parramatta staff move

Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts Paul Fletcher has announced he welcomes ABC’s decision to move 300 staff from its Ultimo office...

Australia-US to collaborate in fight against phone scams

Australia and the United States will work together more closely to combat unlawful robocalls, unsolicited texts and phone scams under a new agreement signed by...