Your Government Engagement Secret Weapon
We share our political expertise and government experience so you can achieve your funding and policy goals.
Our political experts mentor your organisation to develop effective in-house government engagement capacity and capability – ensuring your voice is heard in political decision making and assisting you to achieve better outcomes for your communities while delivering insights to government.
Our personalised approach allows you to identify your political champions and develop your own targeted political network. Based on a deep understanding of your organisation’s issues and needs, we work with you to build all the systems, processes, and skills you require to build political influence and to create rich opportunities through effective engagement.
Doing things differently.
Tanck are not lobbyists. We embed skills and knowledge into your organisation so that you can have confidence in engaging with government on your own terms. Our approach is strategic, bi-partisan and data driven; we provide a pathway for you to obtain the things you need using the resources you currently have.
Our Key Principles
Innovation, Flexibility, Quality, Integrity, Empathy, and Positivity.
We disrupt traditional government engagement methods to uplift social purpose organisations.
We combine proven engagement and advocacy processes into a structured and systemic approach that equips organisations with government engagement skills.
We segment your engagement journey into concrete steps and provide frameworks, tools and guides for each step.
We transform your existing organisational data into political insights that can be harnessed for targeted engagement.
We empower you to be your own best advocate.
What We Deliver
Systems, knowledge, and networks that YOUR organisation owns.
Strategic and structured campaigning that delivers real change.
STRATEGY
Strategic plans, frameworks and timetables
DATA
Transform organisational
data into political insight
CALIBRATION
Coaching and feedback on progress and next steps
TOOLS +
TEMPLATES
Guides for every step
of your government engagement journey
CAPABILITY
Build internal knowledge, skills
and capacity
POLITICAL EXPERTISE
Political cycles, politician behaviour, policy analysis
So, who is Tanck? Well, it’s rather elementary, Watson…
Chris Watson, born Johan Cristian Tanck, was the first leader of a progressive democratically elected government in Australia and the world. On 23 April 1904, Chris Watson became the first Labor Prime Minister of Australia, marking a watershed moment in progressive politics that reverberated the world over. Watson achieved this through his wit, guile and intelligence and was remarked upon as being a pragmatic idealist and a natural leader able to bring people of opposing views together to implement great change and reform. Watson (formerly Tanck) was only 37 when he became Prime Minister – the youngest in Australia’s history. Post-politics he went on to found the NRMA and Ampol; so behind some of the biggest brands in Australia was Tanck.
More than a century later, Tanck seeks to honor Watson’s legacy by working to support leaders in the Australian community who aspire to drive change for the better, for all Australians. Tanck is the story behind the name, behind the person; showing the journey to achieving great change isn’t ever easy but is always worthwhile.