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April 28 2021, 1:17 pm | BY Ricki Green | No Comments Advertising Council Australia has today launched its inaugural Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), the first ever RAP for the Australian advertising industry.   Today’s launch follows the RAP’s formal endorsement by Reconciliation Australia, and is being marked with a special webinar for ACA members. Says Laura Aldington, chair of ACA’s RAP Committee, ACA Board member and CEO of Host Havas: “We are very pleased to be launching Advertising Council Australia’s inaugural Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan today. This l...

Mumbrella360 returns as an in-person event in 2021 Mumbrella360: Reimagined will take place on 13-15 July this year across three individual venues in Sydney’s CBD – the Hilton Hotel, the Four Seasons and the Sheraton Grand Hyde Park. Menage, R/GA’s regional group director APAC, will share insights on how to build an EDI (equality, diversity and inclusion) system that works. ADVERTISEMENT R/GA’s Millie Menage She will illustrate how inclusive and diverse advertising really is and how the system as it stands today is fundamentally flawed. Menage will also unpack striking statistics foll...

New scholarship opens at Cumbrian primary school A new scholarship programme has launched at a Cumbrian primary school. Hunter Hall has today launched The ‘Kirk Global Scholarship Award’ Programme, which comprises three scholarships. The 2021/22 Awards includes a major award worth 30 per cent of school tuition fees and two minor awards of 10 per cent. The programme is open to all children entering Year 5 in September, and scholarships run for the duration of Year 5 and 6.  The school is keen to hear from families across Cumbria whose children would benefit from the opportunities o...

Stanley Newens at the Labour Party conference in Brighton in 1991 Credit: David Fowler/Alamy Stanley Newens, who has died aged 91, was a standard-bearer for Labour’s old Left during 15 years in the Commons, and as long in the European Parliament. An East Ender whose route to Westminster took in working down the pit and teaching history, he stuck with the same constituency despite losing it twice. Yet an uninterrupted tenure might not have brought him office, given his record of rebellion against the defence, foreign and economic policies of Harold Wilson’s first government. A passionate c...

UPDATED: 10:06, Fri, Dec 18, 2020 Brexit: Naval intervention over fishing backed by Lord West Brexit trade talks have stalled this week over the issue of fisheries, with the EU digging their heels in on their demand for access to UK waters after the end of the transition period. With the deadline fast approaching, the Ministry of Defence confirmed four 80-metre armed vessels had been placed on standby to guard British waters from EU trawlers on January 1 if no agreement on fishing rights was reached. Mr Johnson’s stance was criticised by senior Tories including Tobias Ellwood, Conservativ...