Bruce Hawker is a leading campaign manager with 30 years experience advising leaders in business and politics. As MD of Campaigns & Communications, Bruce manages crises and plans and executes communications campaigns.
There’s been quite a lot of interest in my blog about Graham Freudenberg and the much publicised photo of Whitlam and Calwell waiting outside the Kingston hotel in 1963.
Stephen Holt recently co-authored with Ross Fitzgerald a book on Alan Reid, the famous Canberra correspondent for Frank Packer’s Daily Telegraph. It was [...]
This article was originally posted on The Drum.
Last week I had lunch with Graham Freudenberg. Few speechwriters rise above the necessary anonymity of their craft - Freudy is a notable exception.
Apart from being, in my view, Australia's greatest speechwriter, he is also a walking encyclopedia of post-war Labor history. He has been close to the centre of many great and sometimes devastating [...]
This op-ed was originally posted in today's Sydney Morning Herald and coincides with the ALP national conference.
Fifty per cent of the delegates at this year's
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Modern, democratic political parties in Europe and North America, like the Labour Party in the UK and Canada’s New Democratic Party, involve party members directly in the election of party leaders. In Canada, at least, this approach is working with the NDP increasing its membership and winning seats in the Canadian legislature. Political leadership is central to the success of a political party but the enduring strength of a party comes from the involvement and ideas of members and [...]
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@nobodysmuppet demand a series of debates leading up to the election. Media should play a role here. Look at US and UK as precedents.
07 June 2013 09:56:52Compulsory electoral funding steers politics away from the people http://t.co/kKEUcwEjVs #auspol
07 June 2013 07:27:33@MikeCarlton01 @apache_2005 "Always the anonymous halfwit with the wild west avatar". They're the people who once scrawled on toilet walls.
07 June 2013 00:15:03