Media Releases
Focus is Australia's leading corporate custom book publishing house. We specialise in the production and management of high-quality books and limited edition corporate artworks for companies and organisations in Australia and the Asia-Pacific. As well as the federal and most state governments in Australia, Focus has worked with numerous major business and industry organisations and many of the top 500 corporates.
Media releases (click to download the PDF):
• Global Stories acquires Focus Publishing, 1 Feb 2017
• Martin Ferguson launched 2012 Powering Australia yearbook focusing on Australian energy policy during a period of significant reform, 11 Oct 2012
• Keith Orchison announces 2012 Powering Australia yearbook launch, 09 Oct 2012
• Dame Pauline Green, President of the International Co-operative Alliance endorses the 2012 Co-operatives Yearbook, 12 May 2012
• Martin Ferguson launches 2011 Powering Australia yearbook focusing on “Navigating a new electricity supply era” , 28 September 2011
• Book launch Saudi Arabia-Australia. Regional Leaders, Global Partners , 22 September 2011
• Book launch event Stories from the Road Volume II , 27 August 2011
• Book launch event Securing Australia’s Water Future , 20 July 2011
• Powering Australia: Securing Australia's energy future press release, 15 November 2010
• Australian Education: Passport to a Global Career launch press, 27 August 2010
• Queensland: 150 Years of Achievement press release, 13 November 2009
• Powering Australia: Solutions for a sustainable future book launch press, 11 November 2009
• Focus Myer book press release, 16 September 2008
• Myer press release, 16 September 2008
• Myer book launch press, 16 September 2008
• Myer book launch press, 14 September 2008
• one2one: Guide to Mentoring - Melbourne book launch Media Release, 23 July 2008
• Australia-India: A Deepening Economic Partnership - Canberra, Australia launch, 22 July 2008
• one2one: Guide to Mentoring - Brisbane book launch Media Release, 22 July 2008
• Australia-India: A Deepening Economic Partnership - New Delhi, India launch, 21 July 2008
• one2one: Guide to Mentoring - Sydney book launch Media Release, 21 July 2008
• one2one: Guide to Mentoring - Adelaide book launch Media Release, 17 July 2008
• Moving Business Forward - Australian expertise in Transport and Logistics, 3 June 2008
• A History of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia (CYCA), 2 June 2008
• Powering Australia: Media Release, 26 February 2008
• Australia–UAE press release, 24 September 2007
• Australia–India press release, 14 September 2007
• Focus breaches APEC defences, 4 September 2007
• Focus celebrates, 30 August 2007
• New South Wales, Australia – Leading the Asia Pacific (after launch) , 29 August 2007
• New South Wales, Australia – Leading the Asia Pacific Book Launch, 27 August 2007
• The Road Transport Hall of Fame Launches a New Book – "Stories from the Road", 22 August 2007
• Myer board appoints Focus to produce the Myer Story, 22 August 2007
• Powering the world: Australia's energy industries, 26 July 2007
• Australia—Japan: Friendship and prosperity, 23 March 2007
• Autobiography: The inside story of Holden's all-new VE Commodore, 18 January 2007
Book launch transcripts: (Click to download the PDF)
• Link to Hon. Martin Ferguson's launch speech, Powering Australia: Securing Australia's energy future
• Powering Australia, 26 February 2008
• New South Wales, Australia – Leading the Asia Pacific, 28 August 2007
• Powering the world: Australia's energy industries, 26 July 2007
• Australia-India: A Deepening Economic Partnerhsip - Australia book launch speech notes,21 July 2008
• Australia-India: A Deepening Economic Partnership - India book launch speech notes, 11 July 2008
• Transport and Logistics book launch speech notes, 13 June 2007
• Australia–Japan: Speech transcript , 22 March 2007
Press Coverage: (Click to download the PDF)
• Australian Financial Review article, Powering Australia volume 4, 17 November 2010
• Courier Mail article, Keeping the dream alive: Fifty Years of the Queensland Ballet Company, January 2010
• Bharat Times Article, Release of Australia-India: A Deepening Economic Partnership,August 2008
• Sydney Morning Herald Article, Release of Powering Australia, 27 February 2008