Gavin Anderson & Company (Australia and New Zealand)

Gavin Anderson & Company (Australia and New Zealand) is a public relations firm specialising in issues management. It is a part of Gavin Anderson & Company, a global company which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the international communications conglomerate Omnicom in 1990. He is also a director of the American Australian Association.

History
Gavin Anderson & Co is based in New York but was founded by an Australian, Gavin Anderson. After acquiring a PR firm owned by Ian Kortlang in 1996 it became known in Australia as Gavin Anderson Kortlang, but has since resumed its former name. Ian Kortlang was a former Joint Intelligence Organisation staffer and his firm was regarded as having close ties to the Liberal Party ("PR and poker - Spin gun for hire", The Australian, January 25 2001. Not available online)

Clients

 * Department of Finance and Administration

Former Clients

 * Department of Health
 * National Australia Bank
 * Boeing
 * Pacific Dunlop
 * Optus

Telstra Sale
Gavin Anderson managed public relations for the second stage in the privatisation of government-owned national communications company Telstra. It has been awarded the communications contract for the controversial sale of the third and final slice of Telstra, dubbed 'T3'.

Personnel

 * Ian Smith, Chief Executive Officer. Former adviser to former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett.
 * Jonathan Gaul
 * Ian Kortlang
 * Geoff Walsh, Managing Director. Former National Secretary of the Australian Labor Party
 * Felicity Allen
 * James Tonkin
 * Peter Sekuless
 * Allan Scroope, described as having "a background in Federal Government public health administration and policy".
 * Jodie Brough, former Sydney Morning Herald political reporter, Carr Government adviser, and "senior public sector manager involved in both infrastructure and transport service delivery agencies".
 * Jo Scard
 * Bridget Hargreaves
 * Jennifer Eddy, former press secretary to the Federal Minister for Finance and Minister for Industry
 * Perin Davey, former media advisor to National Party Senator Ron Boswell
 * Kelly Quirke
 * Rebecca Wyles
 * Kate Gisborne, former advisor to leader of NSW National Party
 * Erica Borgelt
 * Jamie Snashall, former media advisor to Labor Party MP Julia Gillard
 * Jen Eddy, former press secretary to Nick Minchin. Worked on the T3 bid.
 * Angus Trigg, former staffer to Liberal Minister Bruce Baird

Former Personnel

 * Sue Cato, former co-owner, now manager of Cato Counsel)
 * Kate Kerrison

Political Donations
This information was retrieved from Democracy for Sale, a database built using Australian Electoral Commission records.