Northern Australia PR report to region Nov 2021

NORTHERN AUSTRALIA PR REPORT – NOVEMBER 2021
Literature passed to GSFs

The following GSFs have received literature:
Brisbane North, Hervey Bay, Rockhampton, Townsville, Darwin and Alice Springs.
Literature has recently been sent to a contact which would be Inner City Brisbane; and Mackay will receive some literature this week. Both of these people have recently made contact to be involved with PR.
Literature is a consumable so more will be sent to the above contacts in December and January.

Recent/Ongoing PR activities

Inner City Brisbane has a contact who is keen to start a group. At the moment she has been attending Brisbane North and the Northern Australia PR meetings to gain knowledge on group processes and activities
A contact at Mackay has recently also asked about PR. Both these contacts have been emailed the “Do and Don’ts of PR” and the NA PR Booklet

Brisbane North has recently established (August 2021) a PR group with approx. 7 committed members.
The group has passed on posters and business cards to police stations, PCYC, Probation and Parole, a local rehab, drop in centres. Enquiries have been made at pharmacies and a school for troubled teens. There has been a Google doc set up so people can list the places they visit and the group can also see which institutions still need to be visited eg Court Houses
Moreton Bay Council has been approached and has agreed to put our posters up in their libraries and also in their toilets. They wanted an electronic version so that they could print them out themselves. We will monitor that to see if they have followed through with their commitment.
It will also be suggested to them, at a future date, that NA members would like to visit these places and pass on the PR materials (libraries) and post these materials ourselves in the toilets.
There is also the issue of NA being fully self – supporting. Again, I think that the PR group will address this after further contact with the Council. We’ll monitor the situation in the next 2 months and make contact in February.
The group came up with the idea of putting sticky business card or A5 size posters above the sharp bins in toilets. That has been put to the Council but they wanted to print them off themselves and place the posters.
The group was also looking for a workshop idea for PR. Details are yet to be ascertained.

Brisbane South
Established in December 2021. They have poster placement in doctor’s surgeries and pharmacies. They have made contact with the railways and bus companies. Railways were no-goers. Many other options have also been looked at. They also have a register of places visited.
Recently they attended a Tattoo Convention and I’m yet to know how that went.
They are following up on contact with the CFMMEU to provide their members with presentations.
They have been very helpful in giving Brisbane North a model to follow.

Northern Australia
Coordinating the above and providing literarture. Contact being made with larger organisations e.g. Telstra, Council, Qld Health
A check was made of NA currency on major health websites eg Qld Health, Lifeline, Lions Club Biala (part of Qld Health)
Contact with Telstra is on – going. We have put a proposal to Telstra to place our posters in their toll free phone booths along the Queensland coast and in Darwin and Alice Springs. Talks have been encouraging and as recently as this week I have had contact with a manager who once again has passed our proposal ‘further up the chain”. That’s a wait and see!