COTA Victoria has appointed Steve Wright as Communications & Memberships Manager. He joined the team in 2023 and was most recently Marketing & Communications Manager.

Steve is also the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of his own video games website, Stevivor. He has also held comms roles at The Australia-Indonesia Centre. 

Eleanor Ashdown has joined the External Communications team at Kiwibank. She has moved in-house after more than two years at Special PR as Senior PR Director. Prior to this, Eleanor worked agency-side at MSL, Eleven and DRUM, as well as Wildcard Communications in the UK.

Annalise Batchelor has joined the team at Sodali & Co in Perth where she will continue to support clients with investor relations and financial communications. She was previously at FTI Consulting as a Senior Consultant. Prior to this, she was in Sydney-based Cannings Strategic Communications.