Blog 2 - CME - Busy Busy Busy

Hi everyone

Wow, so much has happened since my last blog post! And I can't believe I'm now in my final week! It's been very busy here and my time has flown by..

Firstly there was Australian Climate Commission Breakfast. It sounds quite dry but it’s always a contentious topic and provokes stimulating debate. This meant I was up at 4:30am and at the venue by 5:30am (which was déjà vu of my last job) but I was happy to be able to assist the Events and Communications Manager with everything from setting up registration tables, place cards to assisting with last minute changes. I found it very insightful to see how different people do different things to be able to compare and contrast to the way I ran events. I learnt a lot! I was kept busy with events as there were two sundowners I was helping prepare for (one in the South West, and the other a boardroom cocktail function). Click here to take a look at some of our upcoming and past events that have been occupying some of my time.

At the breakfast I sat at the media table with a number of journalists from AAP, the Financial Review and WA Business News who then stayed to interview the commission panel and CME’s CEO Reg Howard-Smith at the media doorstop after the breakfast. It was great to see how this doorstop worked and the subsequent media coverage generated as a result. Click here to view the articles that appeared in The West, Trading Room, PerthNow, NineMSN, The Age and Yahoo (to name a few).

It has also been very busy in the Media and Public Affairs portfolio. I have been assisting the Executive Officer of Media and Public Affairs in preparation for her trip to Canberra with a CME Director. This trip was in relation to the proposed heritage listing of a substantial part of the Kimberley region and was an intensive few days last week. Having my supervisor away I was responsible for everything from doing the daily media summary (summarising all articles relevant to industry) from the West, Fin Review, the Australian & WA Business News, to managing incoming media enquiries and accompanying the other Director to TV media interviews. Stay tuned for more to come on what I was up to while my boss was away!

-Lydia
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