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Junk food and alcohol ads scrapped by Queensland government 8

Online magazine targeting young women, Win Win, launches

Masterfoods celebrates family ‘forever’ recipes

Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation to return to Nine on 1 May

Chris Hemsworth voices Swisse’s new brand positioning campaign, ‘Quest’

687,000 viewers tune in to see Sam Johnson named Dancing With The Stars winner

Mediacom promotes Ryan Goldsworthy to biddable group director

DPR&Co takes on Honda Marine social account

Johnnie Walker hands global creative account back to Anomaly 1

Samuel Johnson wins Dancing With The Stars 3

Bachelor in Paradise to film finale in front of live studio audience

Stand Up For Christchurch comedy special attracts 262,000 viewers to Ten

Seven wins ratings week as Ten hits highest share in months

Australia falls in World Press Freedom Index, with report citing PM, media mergers and ‘draconian’ laws

Facebook admits it was actually ‘millions’ of users who had their Instagram passwords compromised

Today Show slips to 176,000 viewers on Good Friday 1

Ticket reseller Viagogo misled consumers, court finds

Bill Shorten goes to war with News Corp over ‘dishonest scare campaigns’ 6

Herald issues correction over GetUp claims

The Chase tops entertainment TV ratings on Thursday night

‘Don’t worry about data’, says Telstra as it targets pre-paid customers

Angela McCann rejoins Mango as group business director for McDonald’s

Anh’s Brush With Fame and 7.30 help ABC win primetime slot, while Ten holds strong in key demographics

‘World-first’ neuroscience ad urges motorists to slow down this Easter 5

TAC and Melbourne International Comedy Festival launch pedestrian safety campaign with walking comedy show

Cadbury takes stand against racism and intolerance online with ‘Symbol for All’ 36

QMS annual report promises more transparency, reveals Barclay Nettlefold paid $959,748 3

‘Don’t expect a warning’, warns Energy Safe Victoria in danger-awareness campaign

History Will Be Kind wins PR for cash-back portal Shop Back

Deliveroo hires Google’s Jeremy Brook as head of marketing 1

The Royals appoints Sebastian Vizor as deputy ECD 1

ME Bank, Athena, Suncorp Group, WISR and more to speak at the Mumbrella Finance Marketing Summit

Mason Rook appointed commercial sales director for Guardian Australia 3

Masterchef Australia to premiere on Ten on 29 April 3

GrowthOps appoints Clems’ Jason Polson as group director of creative

Initiative appoints Chris Colter as national strategy director 3

‘The truth builds trust’ says News Corp in election-based promotion 5

Guardian Australia announces plans for newsroom expansion

Thinkerbell launches ‘Art in Micro’ campaign for Art Series Hotels 2

Seven wins Tuesday night with 21.3% audience share

Tonic Health Media appoints Anthony Fitzgerald to its board 5

PHD wins Virgin Australia media account 5

Kojo wins creative content account for Cricket Australia’s Big Bash Leagues

Employsure hires Frank Digital to rebuild its digital platform

Nine and News Corp’s joint venture Your Money to close digital platform 9

Speed and Clemenger BBDO Sydney win MCoBeauty account 1

Eyeota appoints Andrew Gilbert as ANZ commercial director

Clemenger BBDO Melbourne promotes Freya Page to group business director for NAB 3

Andrew Denton returns to Seven and Nova for a second season of Interview 1

Maurice Blackburn appoints Half Dome to manage all paid digital media

Life-Space Probiotics appoints Dig & Fish to creative account

Chris Howatson to head all of Clemenger Group’s Australian agencies 2

Over 1m tune into Foxtel for Game of Thrones season eight premiere 8

‘31% of all visitors to the Maldives were Luxury Escapes customers’, according to head of digital content

Ten releases first podcast offering from 10 Speaks, ‘The Professor and The Hack’ 1

McCann recruits Darren Spiller as CCO, and replaces Adam Lee with Hazelle Klønhammer

‘98% of PR fails’: Australian Traveller Media managing director 5

Nine pushes mastheads ahead of election, reminding consumers ‘You Deserve to Know’

GSK appoints Weber Shandwick to its social media account

Publishers who think they can build a business on cutting newsrooms are ‘deluding themselves’: NYT CEO 2

Lara Worthington stars in Sheridan’s Tonight Makes Tomorrow campaign

Kiis 101.1 Melbourne gets new content director, Tony Aldridge 1

Nerio Communications appoints Emma Kirkaldy as head of strategic development

PR agency Theory Crew wins three new accounts 1

Industry bodies label government funding for streaming services ‘inexplicable’ and ‘outrageous’ 2

‘Nobody puts Granny in the corner’: over 50s get naked to protest adland ageism 3

Tom Andrews returns to Carat to head up $19.4m Disney account 1

Publicis Sapient appoints Ben Moir as director of product engineering

Sunday Night Takeaway airs final episode to 254,000 viewers 2

Straight Up PR rebrands as part of full-service push

ACCC takes Iselect to court for allegedly misleading consumers into paying more for electricity 6

McDonald’s to reveal the secrets of media pitch success, true stories from TV land, and more set for Mumbrella360

Opera House seeks new principal corporate partner 1

Conclusion of MAFS helps Nine win one more ratings week

Nova shakes up programming with Matt Tilley and ‘Smallzy’ nabbing morning gigs 2

World Vision CMO Teresa Sperti steps down 2

Ten’s Saturday audience share falls to 6.8% 2

Seven wins Friday night sports battle, with 553,000 tuning in to AFL

Foxtel pays tribute to fallen characters of Game of Thrones with graveyard open to the public 4

Mamamia appoints Clare Stephens as editor

Travel marketers need permission to be bold, says SA Tourism Commission executive director of marketing 2

Mindshare wins $35m Tourism New Zealand account as global media partner 1

Clemenger BBDO Sydney named Agency of the Year at AWARD Awards

Seven wins Thursday night with a strong news and AFL performance 1

Red Agency secures three Mumbrella Travel Marketing Awards

AADL CEO Stephen Porges steps down, replaced by ADMA’s Andrea Martens 1

RACGP ad campaign urges government to fund healthcare this election

Starcom partners with Visa and Seven West Media for Australian-first smart home study