Corporate Communications Tasmania

Corporate Communications (Tas) Pty Ltd (CCTas), is the Tasmanian partner of international PR firm Porter Novelli.

"We deliver for our clients in timely and proficient manner. We manage projects rigorously at all times adhering to the stringent ethics of our profession. As an accredited public relations consultancy - the only accredited public relations consultancy in Tasmania - we meet the stringent requirements of the Public Relations Institute of Australia’s (PRIA) national Registered Consultancy Group," it states on its website.

"Tasmanians for a Better Future" Controversy
Immediately prior to the 2006 Tasmanian state election, CCTas ran a series of ads for a secretive group of businessmen calling themselves "Tasmanians for a Better Future". The ads attacked the Tasmanian Greens and advocated the return of 'majority' government, which in effect meant urging a vote for the incumbent Labor government. The ads were particularly controversial because CCTas refused to reveal the who had funded them.

Personnel
CCTas no longer discloses who works for it on its website. However, a list provided on the company's website in 2006 listed the following staff.
 * Tony Harrison, Managing Director
 * Nicholas Turner, Executive Director,
 * Ingrid Harrison Executive Director
 * Craig Harding, Manager Marketing
 * Mark Wells, General Manager Northern Tasmania
 * Maxine Eyles, Advertising Sales Manager
 * Jane Bestwick, Public Relations Consultant
 * Amanda Sims, Public Relations Consultant
 * Kate Wheatley, Marketing Consultant
 * Karen Baddiley, Administration Manager
 * Lisa Hermanis, Administration Officer

Clients
In 2003 CCTas won a PR Week Asia Pacific international award for their work on the "transfer of the environmental licence from the holding company of the former Tioxide site at Heybridge to Echo Tasmania".

Current and Past clients
CCTas does not disclose its clients on its website but some of its past and present clients have included:
 * Powerco
 * Gunns
 * TT-Line
 * TasPorts
 * Hobart Airports
 * Taiwan Pulp and Paper Company
 * Tasmanian Chamber of Mines

Other Sourcewatch resources

 * Public relations firms/Australia
 * Tasmanians for a Better Future (2006)

Contact Information
Hobart Office: Level 1, 142 Elizabeth Street Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 7000 Free Call: 1300 655 174 Phone: (03) 6210 5200 Fax: (03) 6210 5205

Launceston Office: Level 1, 10 Cameron St Launceston, Tasmania, Australia 7250 Phone: (03) 6331 0569 Fax: (03) 6331 0818 International Tel: + 61 3 6331 0569 International Fax: + 61 3 6331 0818 Web: http://www.cctas.com.au/