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Victoria to review school sponsorship rules with climate in mind
There’s progress in the push to protect children from coal, oil and gas propaganda in Victorian public schools. Education Minister Ben Carroll has confirmed that the Department of Education will...
New F-List report exposes fossil fuel contracts in New Zealand communications industry
The F-List 2025 released today by Comms Declare and Clean Creatives has named agencies in New Zealand working for fossil fuel companies. The report identified 14 agencies in New Zealand with fossil...
Fossil fuel lobbyists flood Canberra as agencies and media exposed in 2025 F-List
Comms Declare and Clean Creatives today released the F-List 2025, exposing the scale of fossil fuel influence in Australia’s advertising, PR, lobbying and media sectors. The report identifies 156...
Legality of Shell QGC sponsorship in question
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...
New Zealand’s historic first clean communications policy
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...
Australian Gas Networks’ MasterChef ad breaches Greenwashing Code
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...
Consumer regulator asked to investigate News Corp front pages
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...
Final tally – $42 million spent on digital political ads
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...
More than $36m spent on digital election ads
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...
More than $23 million spent on social media election ads in one month
Unions, front groups, nuclear and gas lobbyists target voters Google and Meta have made a fortune in election ads in the month 26 March to 24 April, according to online political database,...
Gas lobby group tops Perth social media advertisers
Gas lobby group Australian Energy Producers was the largest single political advertiser targeting Perth Meta users over the last month (21 March to 19 April). According to social media database...
Press Council finds gas-sponsored front page was not misleading
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...
Greens policy to power clean energy marketing revolution
$275 million pledged to help cut fossil fuel sponsorships and boost renewables' visibility Climate communications group Comms Declare has welcomed a landmark proposal from the Australian Greens that...
Advance Tops Astroturfing Leaderboard
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...
Press Council Complaint
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...