Services

Government Relations & Lobbying

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Government relations services cover Australia's federal government and its state and territory governments. Services include:

 

• Legislative monitoring, tracking and analysis of political party policies, legislation that has been introduced to parliament, and potential changes to regulations that might impact your industry and business;

• Lobbying members of federal and state parliaments, and government departments to influence outcomes to proposed policies, legislation and regulations that might impact your industry and business;

• Issue Alliance Building by establishing industry associations and building coalitions to support you in your lobbying effort;

• Parliamentary Inquiry Assitance to support you in development of submissions to parliamentary inquiries, and preparation of executives prior to appearances before parliamentary inquiries, and all necessary support during appearances before parliamentary inquiries;

• Political Polling and Campaigning where building broader community support is necessary to influence the policy agenda.

• Desiging and Executing Integrated Media Strategies to support lobbying campaigns where necessary, including writing opinion articles for influential publications and preparing executives for media appearances.

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Issue and Crisis Management

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Issue and Crisis Management services include:

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• Strategy and Messaging Development to identify stakeholder concerns, and approaches and messaging to address them in the context of the issue or crisis;

• Media Liaison to ensure media inquiries are managed and addressed appropriately, including by filling the role of Media Spokesperson where appropriate;

• Development of Media and Stakeholder Communications Material to ensure all relevant issues and concerns are addressed in appropriate statements, FAQs and other written collateral;

• Issue and Crisis Audits to ensure clients are well prepared for all possible scenarios that could impact their business;

• Crisis Manual Design and Development to ensure relevant tools are in place to be deployed in the event of a crisis;

• Crisis Management Training, including through Crisis Simulation Drills, to ensure your crisis managment team has been taken through their paces prior to any crisis occuring so they know what to expect and what to do when the unthinkable happens.

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Litigation Support

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Alistair Nicholas Consulting works with a number of law firms and in-house counsel to provide communications support during court trials and other legal matters. These services include:

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• Communications Strategy and Messaging Development to ensure approaches and messages are tailored to relevant stakeholders;

• Communications Materials Development to ensure all media statements and other stakeholder materials are suitably drafted in-line with legal requirements and considerations;

• Media Management and Liaison to ensure all media inquires are appropriately addressed.

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Spokesperson Training

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Training services cover:

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• Media Skills for Crises to ensure executives who may need to front the broadcast and print media interviews in a crisis are equipped and well practiced for the task;

• Crisis Management Training for your senior management teamto ensure they are crisis-ready by taking them through their paces during real-time and realistic scenario drills; 

• Witness Training for executives who are required to appear before parliamentary, judicial and regulatory inquiries. 

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For more information about my services and how I can best assist your organisation, contact me via the links at the bottom of this page for a confidential discussion about your needs.

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