“Mastering the Dark Art of Lobbying” is a book for individuals, businesses, and community organisations who want something from government, and need a bit of advice about how to go get it.
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What You Want to Say is Entirely Irrelevant: Until you have done the groundwork and preparation, you can be certain decision-makers will miss some or all of what you are trying to say, quite possibly the most important part.
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Great Lesson in Bad Board Practice: How many Boards/committees make similarly perverse decisions when they’re angry, or panicked, or lack confidence in the business’ officers, or have not adequately considered the consequences of each option confronting them?
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Public Servants & Moral Leadership Every week, almost, there’s media coverage of unethical or more serious misbehaviour by Australian public servants or political operatives. Those stories are usually accompanied by hand-wringing demands for stronger ethical standards or better behaviour or heads to roll or something. There’s a simple way around the problem, in my rarely
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Elections: Killing Off the Great Persuader 23 December 2025 Volunteering inside a good election campaign, or watching from outside, you can’t help but be impressed when a team or leader do a great job of persuading voters to trust them, and achieve a deserved victory. I’ve learned many things in the many campaigns I’ve been
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What Rough Beast? March 2024 As his victory draws closer, Trump is more overtly using the language, logic, and supporters, of fascism, to drive his campaign forward. He’s intent on electing a compliant Congress, and already owns the Supreme Court. With the Presidency in his hands he will have obliterated the checks and balances supposedly
