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Patrick Langrell

Corporate advocacy isn’t passing the pub test

Controversy over business hand-wringing about Australia Day shows why taking public stances is fraught.

In the latest instance of corporate social faux pas (not to mention, déjà vu), Australian Venue Co – owner of more than 200 pubs and bars – directed its establishments not to allow Australia Day celebrations on January 26.

And thus began the annual tradition of corporate hand-wringing over Australia Day.

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Patrick Langrell is director of the Governance and Public Affairs Centre at the Australian Catholic University. He is convenor of business governance and engagement roundtable Executive Forum.

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