This is a unique opportunity to hear from and ask questions of one of Australia’s leading government relations experts on how to win change under a Labor government.
Join Simon Banks, Managing Director at Hawker Britton and Saffron Zomer, Founding Director of Australian Democracy Network, in conversation and Q&A hosted by Osmond Chiu, Senior Policy Officer at CPSU.
Designed for campaigners and advocates, learn who’s who in the new Parliament, what to expect from the Labor government and the crossbench, and tips for how you can best position your campaigns to win.
DATE AND TIMES
The webinar will take place on Friday, June 24 at:
11:00AM — 12:30PM AEST
10:30AM - 12:00PM ACST
9:00AM - 10:30AM AWST
1:00PM - 2:30PM NZST
SPEAKERS
Simon Banks — Managing Director, Hawker Britton
Simon Banks is one of Australia’s most highly respected government relations, campaigning and strategic communications professionals. Over more than twenty years, Simon has worked closely with most of Federal Labor’s frontbench, Caucus and senior staff. Following the 2010 Federal election, Simon helped the Government, Opposition and country Independent MPs agree on the historic parliamentary reforms which were central to the return of the Gillard Government. A lawyer by training, Simon has extensive campaign experience. He managed the high-profile online Kevin07 campaign during the 2007 Federal election and ran the uniquely successful ACT campaigns for the Constitutional Convention election and the Republic Referendum.
Saffron Zomer — Founding Director, Australian Democracy Network
Saffron is a lawyer, campaigner and political strategist with more than a decade of experience leading law reform campaigns. Prior to the Australian Democracy Network, Saffron was Government Relations Manager at the Australian Conservation Foundation. She spent several years living and working in the US, where she held a range of campaign and government relations roles. In 2017, Saffron co-founded and led the Hands Off Our Charities Alliance which secured critical changes to 2017 Electoral Act amendments to protect the rights of civil society organisations to engage in advocacy.
Osmond Chiu — Senior Policy and Research Officer, Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU)
Osmond Chiu is a Senior Policy and Research Officer at the CPSU and Research fellow at the Per Capita think tank. He worked in policy roles in the trade union movement and Australian Public Service for over a decade. He has spoken and written about a range of topics including the public service, the future of work, diversity in politics, social democracy, the privatisation of services and multiculturalism. His writing has appeared in publications including The Sydney Morning Herald, Guardian Australia, Canberra Times and South China Morning Post. He is also a contributor to the book ‘What Happens Next? Reconstructing Australia after COVID-19’.
ACCESSIBILITY
This webinar will be live captioned and recorded. Please let us know if you have any other access needs when registering.