Advocacy Month – 3. Shape the Message
Great advocacy starts with clarity. You can have a rock-solid case and broad stakeholder support, but if your message doesn’t land, you’ll struggle to build momentum.
Advocacy Month – 2. Know the Landscape
When it comes to securing funding or influencing policy, most organisations know what they want, but fewer take the time to fully understand who they need to talk to, how to engage them, and when those conversations will actually matter.
Advocacy Month – 1. Define the case
How often have you seen it? A committed leader stands up, full of passion for their community or organisation. They speak from the heart about why their project deserves support. And yet… decision makers remain unconvinced.
How Water Corporations Can Overcome the Asset Management Crisis
The Growing Asset Challenge: A Financial Ticking Time Bomb Across Australia, water corporations (and councils) face an escalating…
Securing Water Funding for Long-Term Sustainability
The Problem: Short-Term Thinking is Failing Water Corporations Water corporations and councils across Australia are facing a funding…
The Four Water Cycles for Large-scale investment in Australia
Water and Money: how to ride the waves (and avoid the droughts) Water is life. It shapes landscapes,…
Turning conversation into action this International Women’s Day
Every man has a choice: to listen or ignore. Every year, International Women’s Day sparks conversations about equality,…
How will you support your community’s resilience with this $200M Fund?
Driving through the Grampians recently, I was reminded of the devastating impact of the bushfires that swept through…
Tis the time to Tender
Public servants carefully drop tenders and grants into the market in December, then vanish for their well-deserved break. Meanwhile, the rest of us are scrambling to meet impossible deadlines, chasing suppliers who are off the grid and cobbling together bids with incomplete information.
Victoria is open for business: Unlocking growth opportunity
Regional Victoria is poised for a new era of growth, according to the Victorian Government, as it unveiled its ‘comprehensive’ plan to foster industrial development, create jobs, and strengthen local economies.