Comms Declare campaigns against Chevron partnership with Australia Day

Kalila Welch

November 24, 2022 8:02

Comms Declare has launched a campaign demanding the National Australia Day Council (NADC) drop Chevron as its diversity and inclusion partner, suggesting that the energy corporation’s vested interests in the future of fossil fuels may have influenced the Council’s selection of Australian of the Year recipients.

The campaign launches off the back of comments made by Grace Tame at the Purpose Conference in Sydney in October, with the 2021 Australian of the Year recipient revealing that she was given a $40,000 budget for travel reimbursement on the condition that she did “free gigs” for Chevron, as a NADC sponsor.

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Kalila Welch

Kalila Welch joined the Mumbrella editorial team in November 2021. She took a brief career break in mid 2023 to complete her Masters of Journalism before returning to Mumbrella for a year.

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