Altitude Public Relations

12/04/2021

After the most recent social media data breach, experts recommend Australians with LinkedIn accounts change their passwords on all online accounts and enable a enable two/multi-factor authentication. HaveIbeenPwned.com is an excellent resource for checking if your details have been part of any recent data breaches/leaks.

More than 500 million scraped profiles are allegedly for sale on a well-known hacking website and 2 million have been offered as a sample of proof.

08/03/2021

“The time has come for the sun to set on my time at Sunrise,” she told viewers on Monday morning.

22/02/2021

COVID-19 vaccines are now rolling out in Australia but what does this mean for business? The wait is on for chief health officers in states and territories to outline clear rules about mandatory vaccinations. Our client Barry.Nilsson talks to The Australian about the consequences of 'No jab, no job' and the need for anti-discimination exemptions for people to opt out for medical or religious grounds.

17/02/2021

Extraordinary times: Facebook bans Australian news content from its platform. Warnings such as these appear when you try to post news on your feed. Facebook has announced the move overnight in a blog post in response to Australia's Media Bargaining laws: https://about.fb.com/news/2021/02/changes-to-sharing-and-viewing-news-on-facebook-in-australia/

13/01/2021

Freedom of speech or freedom to incite? Pressure is mounting on social media platforms to be held more accountable:

The storming of the US Capitol by an angry mob and subsequent dismantling of President Trump's social media machine represents a "tipping point" for the regulation of online platforms, experts say.

24/11/2020

News Corp Australia has launched a centralised business news desk as part of a move to restructure the company's national business journalism. The Australian Business Network, run by The Australian newspaper, will share print and digital content across News Corp's broadsheet and metropolitan newspapers, including The Daily Telegraph, The Courier-Mail, Herald Sun, and The Advertiser. Existing metropolitan business reporters will be merged with the new national team:

The new business desk will be led by The Australian's business editor, Eric Johnston, a former business editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

28/10/2020

Gotta love presenting online in the new pandemic age and in the middle of a storm cell. Lucky the technology held out😁

And we’re up and running with our 2020 Online AGM! Merrett presenting our media achievements

07/10/2020

Thanks to Lawyers Weekly for featuring our client Barry.Nilsson and special counsel Lana Davey on page 5 in the latest edition of Lawyer's Weekly magazine. To read the full publication visit

16/08/2020

The popularity of podcasts is surging. Increasingly more and more people are realising the convenience of this new media format in their busy lives. If you're a business or an entrepreneur you should definitely consider adding podcast interviews in the marketing mix:

Read this week's guest blog by Michelle Glogovac, the CEO and Founder of The MSL Collective, a PR and full-service Podcasting agency and the host of the My Simplified Life podcast, on how to get on podcasts! Podcasts are exploding! In May 2020,

01/04/2020

Another sad casualty of COVID-19:

News Corp says it will suspend printing of 60 community newspapers in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia from April 9.

30/03/2020

COVID-19: Government announces new 'Jobkeeper' subsidy for full-time workers, part-time workers, sole traders and casuals:

Businesses are being urged not to sack employees during the coronavirus crisis, with $750 a week per worker offered to subsidise wages as the economy takes a nosedive and workplaces close.