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 | Jun 10, 2025 | Media
Australian Gas Networks (AGN) has again been caught greenwashing fossil gas – using one of Australia’s most popular reality TV shows. AGN’s ad for ‘Renewable Gas’, linked to its sponsorship of Channel 10’s MasterChef Australia, has been found to have overstated...
by Comms Declare | May 18, 2025 | Media
Climate communications advocate group, Comms Declare has claimed a series of pro-gas front page stories in News Corp newspapers in December last year were misleading for insufficiently disclosing gas industry sponsorship. The complaint to the Australian Competition...
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 29, 2025 | Media, Political Advertising
The biggest election campaign spenders on digital media have been revealed by online political database, WhoTargets.Me. For the three months (26 January to 25 April, 2025) on Google and Meta, the Labor Party spent the most ($9,135,794), followed by the Liberal Party...
