Policy & Strategy Division
There are a lot of similarities between policy, project management and change management. All three disciplines have a very similar cyclical pattern. Understanding and adhering to this cycle is what delivers success..
THE POLICY CYCLE
Policy - or public policy - is essentially the art of politics. Policy is everywhere whether we like it or not. If you wish to export globally, run a tourism business or manufacture locally, the policy environment has a lot to say about what you can do and/or how you go about it.
NEUTRALITY
It’s important to know off the bat that we are 100% politically neutral. We lobby and negotiate with any political party, Shire, Council or politician to secure an outcome for a client.
SUPPORTING CLIENTS
The fundamental mistake many make is believing they understand politics and the policy environment by reading the newspaper. The policy cycle is a defined cycle starting generally with an idea (policy solution needed) and then moves through a policy development stage, consultation period, implementation and then finally evaluation. Within this framework you have a series of obstacles and actors from policy networks, vested interests, agenda setting challenges through to, ‘…what drivers do we use or promote to achieve the outcome’? For example, will voluntary compliance achieve the policy objective or do we need to advocate for economic solutions - user pays - to change behaviour.
Either way, we map all of this out very quickly for clients and develop a comprehensive plan to succeed.
POLICY PORTFOLIO
Education
Engaged by one of Western Australia’s most respected universities our brief was to deliver a change management piece that set the strategic direction to enhance the student experience across the entire campus.
Aged Care
We were recently engaged to deliver a large piece of work that would set the strategic direction of a iconic community aged care company; post the Aged Care Royal Commission. Taking over the business we needed to wade through a raft of complex policy reforms whilst delivering both financial and HR reforms.
Marine / Oceans Policy
We specialise in Marine Bio-Regional Planning - Oceans Policy. For six year we represented the most respected global manufacturers and established the Australian Marine Alliance (AMA). The AMA was considered the largest cross-sector platform in Australia bringing together global manufacturers, recreational angling and the commercial fishing sector for the first time in Australian history. Add to this light marine, manufacturing, chef and culinary experts, scientists and aqua culture sectors and the foundations were set for substantial policy reform.
Emissions Regulations
We were hired by European and Asian based manufacturers to design and implement an emissions framework in Australia for all spark driven engines compliant with USA EPA 2012 regulations. A key element of our role was to secure Federal Ministerial exemptions for two-stroke technology across three categories - military use, Surf Life saving Australia and remote / Indigenous use.
Youth Diversionary
Change management and policy go hand in hand. We were thrilled to partner with First Nations Education and one of Australia’s best drug, alcohol and addiction specialists John Close, to design a Youth Diversionary Program. The program was based on a clinical case management model and was presented to Shires and the WA State Government Task Force who were desperately looking for policy reform in this space.
Indigenous
We’ve raised $9.5M for Indigenous related issues and organisations in Australia. We are proud to have a successful Indigenous portfolio and have just been in engaged by a Queensland Indigenous organisation to help them take an amazing new program national.
Additional Clients
