Delivering the best strategic advice to our clients.

As a specialist consulting firm with unrivalled experience in government and communication, we provide an integrated suite of public affairs and corporate communications services tailored to suit the individual needs of our clients. Australian and international blue-chip companies, industry groups, not-for-profit organisations and government agencies choose GRA Partners for the breadth of our expertise, in-depth industry knowledge and ability to provide insight and strategic solutions.

GRA Partners works across:

  • Infrastructure, construction and property: major projects, PPPs and asset sales; major project approvals; infrastructure regulation; government inquiries
  • Services, technology and consultancies: political positioning; tender applications; stakeholder communications
  • Energy and resources: approvals and regulatory issues; state agreement approvals; electricity reform process; foreign investment advice
  • Education: funding support; drafting policy and government submissions; project approvals process
  • Manufacturing: industry policy; research and development policy and funding; environmental impacts; environmental and recycling regulatory changes
  • Agriculture: legislative amendments; industry campaigns; project approvals
  • Health and Aged Care: private hospital industry issues; legislative amendments; approvals and regulatory issues
  • Transport: policy analysis and regulatory advice; submission coordination; government infrastructure procurement; political and agency positioning.

Government Relations

Solutions that go beyond the traditional concept of government relations.

GRA Partners’ bipartisan team provide clients with a range of solutions that help build constructive lines of communication with government and other key stakeholders to appropriately influence public policy outcomes. As a respected leader in government relations for more than a decade, we know the strategies and approaches likely to be effective in dealing with government. Our senior practitioners work with clients to successfully navigate government policy and political landscape.

The GRA Partners team provides the following services:

  • Corporate positioning: access to and building of strategic relations with key stakeholders across all levels of government and industry
  • Policy, regulatory and legislative advice: strategic counsel, policy formulation, active monitoring and tactical support to achieve regulatory outcomes or contest, promote or amend legislation
  • Political and policy audit: information gathering and analysis to determine how a client, project or policy agenda is likely to be perceived in light of a range of political, policy and other relevant factors
  • Industry, government and stakeholder mapping and engagement: identification of key government and other influencers, and assistance in liaising with stakeholders in pursuit of regulatory or business objectives
  • Government and parliamentary inquiry assistance: guidance on formulation of written submissions to inquiries, public hearing participation and other advocacy activities
  • Major projects, procurement and bid advisory: specialist advice on government procurement processes, such as asset sales, PPPs, major projects and outsourcing opportunities
  • Merger and acquisition advice: working with proponents and their financial and legal advisers to understand key political and policy issues, and achieve foreign investment and other necessary regulatory approvals
  • Intelligence gathering: ongoing monitoring of developments within the executive and legislative branches of government to identify emerging issues of interest to clients
  • Business development strategy: research, preparation and implementation of strategies focused on market entry/expansion into government and regulated industry sectors
  • Investor counsel: assisting investors in regulated industry sectors understand policy and regulatory issues and trends
  • Crisis and issues management: planning, developing and executing strategies to effectively communicate with a variety of audiences on critical and time-sensitive client issues.
  • Board advisory: specialist guidance to build business and relationships, and to manage issues and projects.

Corporate & Financial Communications

Experience that positions our clients at the top of their field.

GRA Partners delivers high-level communications advice and support to assist clients manage critical corporate projects.

Our range of strategic communications services includes:

  • Communication strategy and activation: reputation and profile raising; cross-platform content; PR; stakeholder engagement; internal and external
  • Media, promotion, and stakeholder campaigns: brand, project, advocacy, and issue specific
  • Cross platform content planning and creation: content strategies, calendars and all forms of communication content
  • Investor relations: engagement and growth of investor and shareholder base, strategic promotion, and analysis
  • M&A and IPO communications: communication for asset sales, acquisitions, IPOs and PPPs promoting key messaging and achieving results
  • Roadshow coordination and conference planning: maximising reach and impact of positive company news
  • Social media management and amplification
  • Media and stakeholder engagement: building and leveraging relationships to build brand, influence and profile to meet project and business objectives
  • Issue and crisis management, planning, and training: contingency planning; communications collateral; expert crisis communication coordination; training including desktop and comprehensive crisis response scenario testing
  • Media and professional presentation training: full suite of professional training tailored to individual project, events or issue-specific needs inclusive of crisis, speeches, Town Hall meetings and webinars.

Research

Supporting business, government and community to learn, grow and make better decisions.

GRA Partners is allied with leading market research firms such as Quantum Market Research and Hall and Partners to help our clients explore a range of factors influencing their brand, reputation, sentiment and stakeholder engagement outcomes.

Through our parent company Clemenger, our research partners conduct all facets of exploratory qualitative and quantitative research, advanced analytics and data evaluation for multi-sector WA, national and international organisations.

GRA Partners translates the independent and detailed research data into insights that help our clients with their objectives. The analysis is integrated into client strategy and tactics in key areas:

  • stakeholder engagement
  • messaging
  • media and communications
  • media engagement
  • marketing and promotion
  • brand and reputation management

Quantum Market Research is a boutique agency that specialises in feeding data and insights into strategic planning, marketing, communications, service, and product design. Quantum works across government and commercial entities seamlessly employing innovative and contemporary thinking.

Hall & Partners is a team of unconventional thinkers obsessed with how marketing influences the relationship between people, brands, and culture. Born out of adland, they are the insight agency known for weaving creativity with science.