About Us
Letter From Melbourne is a monthly public affairs bulletin, a simple précis, distilling and interpreting public policy and government decisions, which affect business opportunities in Victoria and Australia.
Written for the regular traveller, or people with meeting-filled days, you only have to miss reading the The Age or The Herald Sun twice a week to need Letter From Melbourne. It’s more about business opportunities (or lack of them) than politics. It’s not Crikey.com. We keep the words to a minimum.
Letter From Melbourne includes events and people and society, and the weather if that is important.
Increasingly, Letter From Melbourne is developing a federal and international readership and increasingly feature also a synopsis of national business issues
The only publication of its type, Letter From Melbourne keeps subscribers abreast of recent developments in the policy arena on a local, state and federal level.
You can read it on a flight from Melbourne once a month or quietly mull it over at your desk with a good cup of coffee.
How Letter From Melbourne began
- 1992, Victoria in strife
- Kennett Government arrives
- Privatisations, etc. Other big changes
- Inspired by Alistair Cooke’s Letter From America
- Marketing project for public affairs firm
Affairs of State (www.affairs.com.au )
The Editor
A trusted strategic advisor to business, industry and the professions, Alistair Urquhart is an independent public affairs professional with more than 15 years experience. With powerful political and professional, government, industry and community networks, Alistair is one of the best connected people in Melbourne.
Content sourced from
- Victorian, national and regional newspapers
- Media releases (many sources) and TV and radio
- Government reports and publications
- Industry seminars and briefings (around town)
- Parliament House coffees and street-side discussion
This newsletter is copyright. No part may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission from the producer.
Affairs of State is registered with the Australian Government ‘Register of Lobbyists’.
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