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On 23 November 2022, Comms Declare launched a petition to the National Australia Day Council (NADC) and Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, calling for an end to the Chevron agreement and highlighting the need for a tobacco-style ban on all fossil fuel sponsorships. The day after a campaign was launched, NADC has confirmed that the partnership will end.

Chevron is the ‘diversity and inclusion’ partner of the NADC, which runs Australia Day events and Australian of the Year awards. NADC CEO Karlie Brand wrote to Comms Declare stating that the three year Chevron sponsorship deal will end on 30 June 2023 and will not be extended.

 

Facts on Chevron’s Sponsorship

  • Chevron was announced as the inaugural ‘national diversity and inclusion’ partner of the NADC in early 2020.
  • Between 2020 and 2021, the NADCs cash sponsorship revenue increased from $1,601,705 to $2,729,950.
  • Chevron’s logo is the most prominent on the NADC website and its Managing Director spoke at the 2022 Australian of Year award ceremony.
  • In 2020-21 the NADC received nearly $30m ($30,759,076) in public funding and its two executives (CEO & COO) received more than half a million dollars ($521, 847) in wages and benefits.
  • Chevron also funds Auspire, the Australia Day organisation for Western Australia.
  • Chevron staff currently sit on the Australian of the Year selection committees in NT, QLD, and WA. In 2021 there was also a Chevron delegate on the SA selection panel.
  • The NADC is a not-for-profit government company that sits under the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.
  • InfluenceMap ranks Chevron as the oil major with the second lowest policy alignment with the Paris Agreement – while it lobbies for increased oil and gas extraction.
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