Wings Public Relations

Wings Public Relations creates effective and comprehensive communication strategies and public relations campaigns.

Wings Public Relations regularly features in the media, and is honoured to have its efforts showcased. Australian Defence Industry Awards Marketing/Communications Professional of the Year 2022 and Women in Defence Awards 2022 Finalist, our founder and managing director Deanna Nott has had considerable mentions in publications such as the Defence Connect, Australian Defence Magazine, the Gold Coast Bulletin and the ABC.

26/10/2023

WIDA 2023 - Winners and HOF recipient announced!

Australian Defence Magazine

ADM is proud to announce the winners of the 2023 Women in Defence Awards (WIDA) following an exciting ceremony held last night at the National Arboretum in Canberra. The winners of WIDA 2023 are: Communications Awarded to the defence community’s most outstanding female individual working within the communications/marketing/stakeholder engagement field. Deanna Nott, Founder and Managing Director of Wings Public Relations. Deanna Nott, Founder and Managing Director of Wings Public Relations. And the winner is: Wing Commander Deanna Nott of the Royal Australian Air Force.

19/07/2022

WIDA 2022 – Communications finalists

Australian Defence Magazine

Wing Commander Deanna Nott of Wings Public Relations Deanna is the Managing Director of Wings Public Relations. She is also a Wing Commander serving as the Air Force’s Deputy Director Values and Behaviour and the longest serving public affairs officer in the RAAF. The judges were impressed by Deanna’s significant contribution to Defence and Defence industry over 28 years, and her outstanding achievements in 2021 including securing the communications contract to promote Pacific Airshow Gold Coast.

12/07/2022

WIDA 2022 finalists announced!

Australian Defence Magazine

ADM is delighted to announce the finalists of the Women in Defence Awards 2022. Our panel of judges were thrilled to see the incredibly diverse, talented and high-calibre group of individuals nominated this year, from uniformed personnel and Australian Public Service members, to women in a range of roles in Defence industry in both primes and SMEs. To be awarded to the defence community’s most outstanding female individual working within the communications/marketing/stakeholder engagement field. Wing Commander Deanna Nott of Wings Public Relations.

27/04/2022

Pacific Airshow comes to Gold Coast in 2023

ABC News

The event has been in the planning stages for three years and Wings Public Relations director Deanna Nott got involved last year. "It's been an amazing collaboration between the City of Gold Coast, Major Events Gold Coast, Tourism and Events Queensland, and obviously the Australian Defence Force," she said. Ms Nott has been a Royal Australian Air Force reservist for 28 years. "Having grown up on the Gold Coast myself, I see it very much like IndyCar," she said.

08/10/2021

Aussie businesses are scrapping their offices for good: Here’s how to manage the shift

Smart Company

Australian businesses are giving up their office premises for good, and making a permanent move to remote work. But, while it will lead to reduced rent bills, there are other things to consider. Speaking to SmartCompany, Deanna Nott, owner of Gold Coast-based Wings PR, says she was looking for a new office space just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Now her work-life balance is improved, she and her team are being more productive, and even her family dynamics have changed for the better. She relishes not having to deal with a landlord, she explains, and her business’ carbon footprint has been reduced.

27/04/2021

Gold Coast identity and owner of Wings PR Deanna Nott is now the longest serving public affairs officer at Royal Australian Air Force

Gold Coast Bulletin

FORMER Gold Coast Bulletin journalist Deanna Nott has just clocked up 27 years in Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) — she’s now the longest serving public affairs officer in the aerial warfare branch of the Australian Defence Force. The seeds of service were planted in her childhood when her Italian immigrant father Tony was conscripted for the Vietnam War. He would often say to his little girl “the opportunity to serve your country is the greatest privilege” and that message took deep root in Mrs Nott’s psyche. Born in Brisbane, she moved to the Gold Coast in 1981 with her boatie parents who had a holiday house in Paradise Point. She went to primary school at St Francis Xavier Runaway Bay and then high school at the now demolished Star of The Sea catholic college in Southport. In 1989 Mrs Nott won the Gold Coast Bulletin’s university cadetship scholarship and started at the paper in 1990. During her tenure as the police reporter she saw an advertisement in The Australian calling for working journalists to become Specialist Reservists, serving as commissioned officers in the RAAF.

15/09/2022

Winners of Australian Defence Industry Awards revealed

Defence Connect

Defence Connect is thrilled to reveal the 29 winners of the fourth annual Australian Defence Industry Awards, including the first-ever AIC Champion of the Year.

24/01/2022

Defence communications veteran joins AFA

Defence Connect

The association has added a RAAF communications veteran to its national board of directors. Deanna Nott has been named as a director of the Air Force Association’s (AFA) national board, effective from December 2021. Nott, who currently serves as the co-founder and director of Gold Coast-based firm Wings Public Relations, is the longest serving Public Affairs Officer in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). The new appointee holds almost 28 years’ experience as an Air Force Specialist Reservist.