Royal Commission Preparation

A Royal Commission can feel daunting, but it can also be a powerful opportunity, depending on your goals.

Royal Commissions shape agendas, test narratives, and influence government decisions. A well-crafted submission, combined with a targeted government engagement strategy, can give your organisation real strategic influence across stakeholders, strengthen credibility in your sector, and help drive meaningful reform.

It’s not just about responding, it’s about positioning your organisation to be heard, trusted, and considered in shaping outcomes that matter.

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Meet with Neil Pharaoh, Tanck Director and Co-Founder, to discuss your interest in an upcoming Royal Commission. Please email us via info@tanck.com.au

Our Approach

Tanck supports not-for-profit and civil society organisations to engage with Royal Commissions strategically, safely and effectively so evidence leads to reform, not shelf-ware. We help organisations decide whether to engage, how to engage, and how to convert participation into real-world change, while managing political and reputational risk. Tanck works to provide real world examples, context, and understanding to complement formal legal advice.

Strategic engagement advice

We help organisations assess whether a submission is the right intervention - or whether influence is better achieved through coalition work, briefings, or parallel government engagement.

Submission design and positioning

We support the design of submissions with a particular foscus on framing, prioritisation of issues, governance analysis and reform propositions. We do not draft legal submissions, but we ensure civil your evidence lands in ways decision-makers can actually implement.

Risk and contested-terrain management

We help organisations navigate contested definitions, sensitive incidents, disclosure risk and reputational exposure.

Coalition and corroboration strategy

Where influence depends on corroboration, we are able to support joint submissions, alignment across organisations, and creation or refinement of shared narratives that reduce isolation and increase political traction.

Parallel advocacy and government engagement

Submissions alone rarely drive implementation. We work with organisations to identify departments, regulators, ministers’ offices and crossbench stakeholders, and to identify government engagement opportunities during and after the Commission.

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