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Very Public Affairs is a regular update, examination and exposé of the latest trends and developments in how public affairs is managed in large organsiations globally. Each episode examines an aspect of best practice in corporate public affairs internationally, providing insight and guidance to public affairs practitioners working in corporations.
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Webinar
Webinar: The Art of Crafting and Managing Effective Corporate Apologies
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Sydney
2019 Annual Heads of Function and Senior Practitioners Dinner and Roundtable
The Roundtable is the one day in the year for the function's leaders to be part of important conversations and stimulating discussions about managing the corporate public affairs function
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Melbourne
2019 Corporate Public Affairs Professional Development Institute
The Institute is one of the world's best public affairs professional development programs, taught by an international Faculty and a Guest Faculty of senior public affairs practitioners.
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Melbourne
2019 Corporate Public Affairs Oration
Alison Watkins, Group Managing Director, Coca-Cola Amatil, will deliver the Centre’s 2019 Oration In an age of high distrust in corporations, what is the social contract that corporations need to forge with the community?
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Online Learning
Online Learning
The online learning portal offers flexible professional development modules, which provide an opportunity for individual practitioners and corporate public affairs teams to gain essential knowledge of concepts, best practice, and case studies in all disciplines of the corporate public affairs profession...
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The Centre’s new professional award and recognition framework
The Centre’s Top Five public affairs predictions for 2018
Basic reputation hygiene nose-dives at United Airlines
The Centre's Top Five predictions for corporate public affairs in 2017
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Latest News
Stay abreast of what’s happening internationally with developments in corporate public affairs. Here is news that you may find useful and interesting:
Why the Google walkout was a watershed moment in tech
Phillip Morris accused of hypocrisy over anti-smoking ad
Google stays above the fray in Corporate Responsibility RepTrak
Google+ shutting down after users' data is exposed
Corporate sponsorship may be diverting research and distorts public policy, claims report
Nike ‘proud’ of Kaepernick campaign
To grow your business abroad, partner with local influencers
4 ways busy people sabotage themselves
Jeff Bezos banned PowerPoint presentations at Amazon meetings. Here’s what replaced them
Newsletters
Fake News: all the news that’s unfit to print
Scholarship and public affairs theory building
The renaissance of the corporate advocacy campaign
Off-course: the baffling case of MH370 and the crisis management that survived it
What position do you find yourself in?
Going the distance - The State of Australian Public Affairs
Where we are, and how we got here: public affairs in Australia
The business case for proactive government relations
Innovation is not a top priority for many corporate public affairs teams
Stakeholder engagement and innovation in the public sector: insights for business
An increasingly important role for Public Affairs in Asia
Strong ties — Corporate community investment weathers the downturn
Social media and the corporation — friend or foe?
Sand in the gears? Issues and challenges in NFP -Corporate partnerships
