February 2 2021, 9:45 am | BY Ricki Green | 35 Comments
DDB Sydney CCO Tara Ford has joined The Monkeys, part of Accenture Interactive, as chief creative officer. The news comes following the announcement of The Monkeys co-founder and group CCO Justin Drape’s departure.
Ford (above) joins following a stellar creative period where she has produced award winning work at DDB Sydney across a range of blue chip clients including Westpac, Volkswagen and McDonald’s.
Ford joined DDB Sydney in July 2017 in the role of executive creative director and was promoted to CCO two years later. Prior to DDB Sydney, Ford was creative director at TBWA\Melbourne where she worked on the Cannes Lions Grand Prix winning ‘GAYTMs’ campaign for ANZ.
ASX recovers from early tumble as Reddit WallStreetBets traders drive silver surge
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Silver prices have surged as Reddit traders take a shine to the precious metal, while the local share market has pushed higher, reversing an early tumble.
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Spot silver was up by more than 6 per cent in early trade
The Reddit forum that spurred retail investors to pile into GameStop shares has set its sights on silver
The number of job ads rose for the eighth-straight month in January
Two well-known media identities are among the candidates being considered for the ABC’s board.
Media industry sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said former Foxtel boss Peter Tonagh and former broadcaster Anita Jacoby have been approached to take on non-executive director positions following the departure of Kristin Ferguson and Donny Walford last November.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Ita Buttrose as ABC chair in 2019. It’s unclear whether the government will hand-pick the latest board members.
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Ms Jacoby is a highly regarded broadcast executive and journalist who has held roles with at Nine Entertainment (owner of this masthead), Seven West Media, Network Ten, ABC, SBS and Foxtel. She made the shortlist for the SBS board role last year, before Warren Mundine was selected.
How long will the consumer spending party last?
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Passports are sitting idle but delivery trucks and vans ferrying goods to households are not.
The $60 billion-plus that Australians usually spend on overseas trips and travelling interstate without the handbrake of sudden border closures is being diverted to electronics items, household appliances, cars and renovations.
The spend-up is gathering momentum with the prospect of vaccination programs bringing extra confidence that the beginning of the end of the pandemic might be in sight. It comes amid a backdrop of ultra-low interest rates and dizzying amounts of taxpayer funds injected into the economy such as the federal $90 billion JobKeeper program earmarked to finish at the end of March.
There was a booming 14% jump in December quarter retail sales across the board in Australia, so any retailer which still had its hand out for JobKeeper part two after September 30 really has some explaining to do.
Following the lead of Toyota Australia in voluntarily returning $18 million of JobKeeper payments, the pressure is on others who participated in the $100 billion-plus program to do likewise.
There’s a very simple way for the federal government to maximise Toyota-style JobKeeper returns. It should announce that a comprehensive register of net JobKeeper outlays will be made public via a website before the end of April, plus that this will be tabled in the federal parliament and made available for a special parliamentary committee probing the biggest and most rorted grants program in Australian history.