WD & HO Wills - an Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Island subsidiary of BAT

1992 Oct 7: PR on S&H issues for WD&HO Wills in Australia. Advising that Kennett had just given Maria Tehan the job as Health Minister, and that "all Conservative Health Ministers are meeting this week to come up with a plan to fight the Federal Government on Medicare issues."
    [The new Liberal government of Jeff Kennett (an x-advertising executive) in Victoria turned out to be tobacco-friendly, and the new health minister became an industry favourite]

1993: PARG Australasia [Public Affairs Resources Group of BAT] report
    Martin Riordan is joined by Peter Blanchard, formerly head of an Australian industry association and a Canberra bureaucrat. Peter joined Wills in April becoming Manager, Public Affairs.
    Caryn Funch-Thomsen, formerly of Premier, South Africa, and of Wills Personnel, replaced Sharon Yates (resigned 1993) to be Manager, Corporate Communications.