Very Public Affairs Pod

In this episode of Very Public Affairs  Cameron Chu, Analyst at the Centre, interviews Centre Director Wayne Burns on the big stories and reputational crises that defined the corporate landscape this year. 

In this episode of the Centre’s Very Public Affairs Podcast, Analyst Cameron Chu interviews John Short, Leader, Communications & Corporate Responsibility at LIXIL, and Andrew Wheatley, Vice President Communications & Public Affairs, Asia Pacific at the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson. Together, they discuss the latest in the state of corporate public affairs in Japan.

In this episode of Very Public Affairs, Luke Botting, Research Assistant at the Centre, interviews Professor Bruce Baer Arnold, who teaches privacy, health, intellectual property, and consumer protection law at the University of Canberra. They discuss how organisations can improve their cybersecurity, the state of cyber legislation in Australia, and ethical issues surrounding data retention, consumer protection, and AI.

In this episode of the Centre’s Very Public Affairs Podcast,  Analyst Cameron Chu interviews Dr Michael Green, CEO of the University of Sydney’s United States Studies Centre and a former adviser at the US National Security Council, who discusses his analysis of the state of geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific, and offers practical insights for corporate public affairs practitioners.

Government relations teams are often to the fore in corporations when there is a change of government. In this episode Centre Executive Director Wayne Burns talks with George Karagiannakis who spent 18 years as the Executive Manager of government relations at IAG and Daniel Parsons the current Director of public affairs at Bupa on their approach to engaging a new government. 

 In this episode of Very Public Affairs, Centre Executive Director Wayne Burns talks with Tom Rogers, Australia's Electoral Commissioner. They discuss the AEC’s strategic operation to tackle 'misinformation' and 'disinformation' in the lead-up to the May 2022 Federal Election, applauded globally as best practice.

In this episode of Very Public Affairs, The Centre’s Executive Director Wayne Burns talks with the Centre’s Senior Associate and reputation brand doctor, Melanie McMillan about stewarding the corporate brand in an era where this is so much focus on ESG, and how this manifests itself in corporate strategy. 

In this episode of the Very Public Affairs Podcast, Antonia Sanda,  Director, Communications APAC at Deel, and Guy Matthews, Managing Director, Head of Corporate Public Affairs at Citi, are in conversation with the Centre's Executive Director Wayne Burns to discuss the challenges within the corporate public affairs function of international companies in a regional or national market, dealing with global and local issues while away from the mothership and working within an international corporate affairs framework.

In this episode of the Very Public Affairs podcast, Analyst Cameron Chu is joined by Geoffrey Watson SC, Director at the Centre for Public Integrity. Geoffrey discusses issues pertaining to public integrity and transparency in Australia, as well as the reasons and public support for a National Integrity Commission.

In the first episode of Very Public Affairs for 2022, Executive Director Wayne Burns discusses the Centre's top five predictions for the year ahead in the corporate public affairs function, including conversation around the function being an important source of geopolitical analysis as well as how artificial intelligence will impact the function. Click to listen.