An international bruising for Scotty from Marketing, Small Target affirmed from Albo, and The Greens and Palmer recycling old ambitions: the landscape for the next federal election is starting to be set.

Our Co-Founding Director, Neil Pharaoh, gives a rundown of election basics and shares some of the key questions that every for-purpose organisation needs to start thinking about in relation to the election.

Between the two major parties, managing your government engagement is already a large enough job. However, engaging with the crossbench is a next level, high wire act.

Neil looks at the spin, the substance and the impact of Tuesday's Federal budget for the social purpose sector.