By Misha Ketchell As Australia prepares to roll out a national vaccination program – aiming for a 95% uptake rate – big questions remain read more …Continue reading Can My Boss Force Me To Get The Covid-19 Vaccine?
By Mike Canavan If ever evidence was needed to confirm that the ABC has gone completely feral, their decision to encourage Australian citizens to attend read more …Continue reading The ABC Has Gone Too Far And Must Be Held To Account
By Mike Canavan Hello, my name is Dumbo. Today I learned something that has broken my heart and shattered my dreams. The horrible people at read more …Continue reading Who Will Speak For Me?
By Mike Canavan Racial injustice is an odious and unacceptable thing. However, there are emerging nihilist, radical and dangerous movements that looks for offence in read more …Continue reading DON’T SAY CHEESE SAY COON
By Nicholas Hulley and Nadja Lossgott, executive creative directors, Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO Creativity thrives during difficult times when the answers aren’t obvious, and the problems are read more …Continue reading The Year Ahead For Creativity: Turning The Negative Into A Positive
By Mike Canavan After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, most people regarded Marxism as an enemy that had been defeated once and read more …Continue reading 2021 — The Continued March Toward Marxism
By Mindy Smiley & Doug Zanger Advertising agencies have had a rough year in terms of staffing. Dozens of the industry’s biggest shops were forced read more …Continue reading A Major Shakeup In The Advertising Industry Is Most Likely In 2021, But Who Will Stay And Who Will Go?
By Mike Canavan As the twilight of 2020 lingers on the horizon, I was reflecting just what I would write to try to convey what read more …Continue reading In The Twilight Of 2020.
“YES, VIRGINIA, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS” By Mike Canavan This year more than ever before, we at CTL felt that the spirit of this read more …Continue reading A Christmas Message From Crossing The Line Mag
By Simon Gwynn With a global pandemic, extreme social unrest, the continuing climate crisis, battered economies and an astonishing fight for the White House, this read more …Continue reading Anything but normal: Review of the year 2020
By Dr Slavea Chankova There is little doubt that whilst difficult, Australia (if you take out Victoria) has been spared the worst if the Covid-19 read more …Continue reading Our Crystal Ball For 2021 – Living With The Virus
By Mike Canavan Whoever advised Angus Campbell he needed to get a head of the game, and release to the world the shame of or read more …Continue reading A Public Relations Fiasco Hangs Our Best And Bravest Out To Dry
By Jommy Tee Scott Morrison was sacked as managing director of Tourism Australia in 2006 with a year left to run on his contract. For read more …Continue reading The Ghost Of “Where The Bloody Hell Are You” Comes Back To Haunt Morrison
By Matthew Westwood Actors will decide when and how they appear nude or in intimate scenes with other performers in new industry-endorsed rules governing stage read more …Continue reading #MeToo Era Ushers In New Rules For Sex On Stage And Screen
By Mike Canavan. I don’t know about you, but every time I pick up a paper, listen to the radio, or turn on the television, read more …Continue reading Looking For Offence, Our New National Sport. God I’m Sick Of The Woke Culture.
By Mike Canavan I suppose the single greatest aphrodisiac of most people is power. When you coupled it with fame, sex, and money, if you read more …Continue reading Why can’t ex-prime ministers just retire gracefully?
Campaign features LeBron James and Naomi Osaka. In yet another intrusion by marketers into social engineering and political commentary, Nike has launched a campaign urging read more …Continue reading Nike calls on Americans to ‘change the world’ in election voting push
By Mike Canavan Haven’t the Wallabies had enough problems over the past few years without involving themselves in some sort of tokenistic, highly dubious and read more …Continue reading ‘BLM’ — Should not matter to the Wallabies
By Simon de Burton With the Impending release of the latest film in the James Bond franchise ‘No Time To Die’ I thought it might read more …Continue reading Meet The Car That Makes You Feel Like 007
By Mike Canavan Part two on ageism, is slightly different. Whilst reading through a number of international publications, I came across this extraordinary piece written read more …Continue reading Forgotten But Not Gone. Ageism In Advertising & Marketing (Part 2)
By Mike Canavan I don’t know about you, but I for one, am sick and tired of the tokenism and political correctness that has usurped read more …Continue reading Archibald Tokenism?
By Diksha Idnani A timeline from product-centred to purpose-focused The playbook for brand building has undergone a metamorphosis. And to call it a playbook limits read more …Continue reading We No Longer Have The Marketing Playbook We Used To Know
By Mike Canavan I recently came across a wonderful piece by Cartoonist Michael Leunig, a man who has a unique understanding of people, politics and read more …Continue reading The Truth In Cartoons
By Mike Canavan “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. read more …Continue reading Forgotten But Not Gone. Ageism In Advertising & Marketing (Part 1)
The unthinkable is just about to happen. A summer without live free to air cricket. Kerry Packer must be turning in his grave. Sports fans read more …Continue reading Howzat: Cricket Australia Stumped
An ACMA investigation has found KIIS 1065 in breach of rules relating to generally accepted standards of decency due to comments made by Kyle Sandilands about the Virgin Mary and Christian read more …Continue reading Sandilands Breaches Standards Of Decency Yet Again
By Mike Canavan Ancient folklore in Scandinavian and Norse mythology speaks of trolls as: “ugly deformed creatures who dwelt in isolated rocky outcrops, mountains, or caves. read more …Continue reading Don’t Feed The Trolls?
Read “Finally, Ita Speaks…” Part 1 >> By Mike Canavan Sadly, the reason that Ita is having such difficulties understanding the millennial ethos is that read more …Continue reading Finally, Ita Speaks… But Has She Opened Pandora’s Box? (Part 2)
By Mike Canavan Google has been told to “stop the scare tactics” and negotiate a fair agreement with media companies, with the tech giant accused read more …Continue reading Google Launches A Major Scare Campaign
By Patrick West With the up and coming release of the latest Bond franchise “No Time To Die”, the age old question is put before read more …Continue reading Who is the best James Bond?