News & Media
News & Media
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...
Nuclear campaigners target mothers
If you’re a middle aged female with an interest in solar power, nuclear campaigners want you. In the week 15th to the 21st of March, Nuclear for Australia and its offshoot astroturfing group, Mums...
Australian Gas Infrastructure Group breaches Greenwashing Code
A LinkedIn post has been removed by Australian Gas Infrastructure Group (AGIG) following a complaint lodged by the Environmental Defenders Office on behalf of climate communications charity, Comms...
Transparency International and Partners call for immediate action to end high polluters lobby’s grip on UN Climate Talks at COP30
Berlin, 18 March 2025 – Today, Transparency International and over 250 organisations – including Greenpeace, WWF, and Actionaid Brasil – along with prominent figures like Carlos...