Political - interaction with government

Multi-lateral agreement on a particular subject. This Memorandum of Understanding is designed for ministers of three countries who have had a "meeting of the minds" and have decided to formally record this with a legal agreement. It explains future planned co-operative activities in the interests of all participating countries and identifies from each country participating agencies, a key agency for control over activities, and other participating institutions. It explains how activities are funded and how conflicts will be resolved.

The local environment plan (LEP) is not subject to strict rules. Its task is to convince the council and the state government department (and eventually the minister) that the zoning etc. needs to be altered to allow the development to go ahead. This comprehensive LEP format applies the same format to each discipline. They all think that their particular science makes them unique, but, if you can convince them to adopt this simple model, it makes the planner's job easier, and therefore increases the likelihood of the success of the instrument.

When the NSW State Government recently asked for submissions to their new State Plan, a couple of young tech writers (and one not so young) had a brief brain storming session. They did this because the younger ones felt that this was a rare opportunity for them to have some input. The older one agreed to go along for the ride. This is what they came up with. The style was borrowed from the State Plan draft document to make it more believable.

An interesting document. The Researcher is planning to brief the Minister and the Head of Department on a "problem" related to SMEs at the "State" and at the "Industry" level. This needs to be as "brief" as possible whilst containing all the necessary information for the key players to be "across" the problem. This particular Briefing Note relies heavily on ABS 2006 and ANSIC classifications.

A useful example of how to prepare for the upcoming session to brief our lawyers on possible litigation by us.

Regional development - structure of state govt NSW2

A document designed to be sent with the media release to explain in more detail key statements contained in the media release. This allows the sender to provide a brief and attractive article, similar to that which is expected in the newspapers and magazines etc. plus more detailed explanations should they be required by the editors receiving the media release.

A concept document that speaks of a new Australia in the twenty first century. Regionalism. What is a region? Constitutional niceties. How to draw a regional boundary. The importance of water. The historical moment of change. The problem of drought and global warming makes the change even more urgent. (statehood, local government, regionalism, commonwealth, constitution, republic, water, murray-darling, indigenous, governor, governor-general, senate, sub-committee)

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This code of conduct describes extortion and bribery for a corporate enterprise operating internationally. It lays down the rules for operators who may be offered a bribe or who may wish to offer a bribe or be operating in an environment in which bribes are considered 'normal' and 'required' to do business. This code of conduct is based on the ICC's Rules of Conduct on Extortion and Bribery in International Business Transactions 1999, a very useful place to start when formulating new codes of conduct on bribery.