Anecdotally I’m hearing that business events are not storming back. For the most part it looks like February/March next year before most will kick in again, and this is across the country. #eventprofsau

Over the past four months I’ve been critical of Gladys’ handling of the latest COVID outbreak in Sydney, which has since spread to the rest of NSW, Victoria, ACT and Queensland.  However I have admired how she has turned up almost every day to face the media (like Dan Andrews). OK she avoided answering some questions and gave very longwinded answers to others. But that is what politicians do and…

At the beginning of this year I took ASE in a new direction – no more press releases from companies that just want to flog their latest offering and a focus on comment and opinion – not just mine. #eventprofsau

At the beginning of this year I took ASE in a new direction – no more press releases from companies that just want to flog their latest offering , and a focus on comment and opinion – not just mine. Last year I was researching and collating whatever information was out there that affected our industry in coping with COVID in particular, then to publish this as a resource for my readers.  Along…

It has been another hell of a week with COVID cases spiralling in NSW and Victoria and a big push from industry groups calling on the state governments to actually come up with a plan for how events will restart.

It has been another hell of a week with COVID cases spiralling in NSW and Victoria and a big push from industry groups calling on the state governments to actually come up with a plan for how events will restart. And because it is the “official” first day of spring (3 weeks before the rest of the world) I thought I would share a photo from Canberra’s Floriade, which has been cancelled again. A…

We can all remember waiting for each of the COVID restrictions to end and then we knew it was a four to five week lag before we got back to the manageable 1 per 2 square metre rule which allowed many events to happen.

We can all remember waiting for each of the COVID restrictions to end and then we knew it was a four to five week lag before we got back to the manageable 1 per 2 square metre rule which allowed many events to happen. And some did. But now that’s a thing of the past. Even if we theoretically did get back to that position, there is no way we would be allowed to run the event here in Victoria,…

All of us in the event industry already know how difficult things are, so we don't need a survey to remind us.  Hence we were apprehensive about even sharing the results - as we've all already had enough doom and gloom.

This week Save Victorian Events released the top line results from our second detailed survey of the Event Industry.  We had a very strong response to the survey from right across the industry. All of us in the event industry already know how difficult things are, so we don’t need a survey to remind us.  Hence we were apprehensive about even sharing the results – as we’ve all already had enough…

was pivotal in starting to get the real situation in the Event Industry understood by some governments.  This survey will give us very specific data to help us, and other industry organisations, to quantify and explain the current situation for workers...

It is a very challenging time in Australia’s Event Industry with two states in extended lockdown, many border closures, and a huge amount of uncertainty. Please complete the survey Today we are encouraging people and businesses from right across the Event Industry to complete this national survey to help quantify the difficult situation in our Event Industry: Our February survey was pivotal in…

John O'Brien has a go at dissecting the Victorian Inquiry into the impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on the tourism and events sectors

John O’Brien has a go at dissecting the Victorian Inquiry John has professional experience within many areas of AV (control, lighting, video, audio) and construction (planning, management, on the tools) but many of my jobs have relied more upon broader life skills than granular specialist knowledge. John O’Brien One Tuesday in early August 2021, I received several messages about the release of…

This week’s slew of information regarding lockdowns, vaccinations and much more took a bit of deciphering – so here is a summary.

This week’s slew of information regarding lockdowns, vaccinations and much more took a bit of deciphering – so here is a summary. The key message of the week is that lockdowns will end when we get to a vaccination rate of 80% of over 16s, which I tried to unpick from watching one of those classic medical presentations with unintelligible slides Making sense of the COVID transition plan and could…