by Comms Declare | Sep 19, 2025 | Articles
Queensland Museum’s sponsorship deal with gas producer Shell QGC for its Future Makers children’s education program has come under scrutiny, with new legal advice suggesting the deal may breach Queensland legislation. The advice, prepared by the Environmental...
by Comms Declare | Sep 19, 2025 | Articles
In a landmark move, New Zealand’s Greater Wellington Regional Council has voted to ban fossil fuel advertising across the Metlink public transport network, which spans buses, trains, and ferries across the region. This is New Zealand’s first fossil fuel advertising...
by Comms Declare | May 7, 2025 | Articles, Political Advertising
The election results are finally in! We can now say who the biggest political advertisers were across Google and Meta for the three months prior to the Australian federal election. Here’s the top spenders according to WhoTargets.Me ☑️ $16.7m Labor☑️ $14.6m Liberal☑️...
by Comms Declare | Apr 22, 2025 | Articles
A complaint lodged by Comms Declare over a series of front-page newspaper stories promoting the gas industry has been dismissed by the Australian Press Council, despite the lack of transparency regarding sponsored content. The controversy began with the Daily...
by Comms Declare | Apr 10, 2025 | Articles, Political Advertising
Far right political advertiser, Advance, has started the month with an ad blitz across five fake community and fake news social media pages. In the first week of April, its Facebook pages took out the top three spots in spending for non-political parties. Source:...
by Comms Declare | Apr 8, 2025 | Articles
We believe the opinion article by Nick Cater ‘Want honesty in politics? Teals should ditch the big spending hypocrisy’, published in the Australian Newspaper on 7 April, 2025, does not uphold the Press Council’s Statement of General Principals – Fairness and...
