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Top 25 Issue management consultancies based in Australia
RevenueBase identified 316 issue management consultancies headquartered in Australia as of September 2026 and tracks 1,615 professional contacts across them, including 735 with verified work emails. Melbourne is the largest hub.
This list covers issue management consultancies headquartered in Australia, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 28, 2026.
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The 25 largest issue management consultancies based in Australia
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 110 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SEC Newgate Australia is Australia’s largest full-service strategic communications firm for complex issues.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are one of Australia’s leading strategic communication agencies, transforming businesses through powerful, data-led communication.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Phillips Group, we see beyond the obvious – that’s what sets us apart.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Noetic challenges clients to think differently and adopt new approaches to find solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For 25 years, Socom has been a calm head in chaotic environments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BBS Communications Group is one of Australia’s most respected strategic communications agencies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Essential is a strategic communications agency working primarily with member and not-for-profit organisations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Comms Team provides strategic communication, engagement, consultation as well as marketing and creative services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “R4Risk is a specialist consultancy dedicated to process safety and risk management.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Corporate reputation, made clear.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We're a communications, engagement, training and creative consultancy that operates nationally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Counsel House offers advocacy and insights that are highly client focused delivered by industry leaders in their chosen fields.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The SOCIAL DECK helps organisations to reach and engage people in actions that have a positive impact on society and the environment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Freshwater Strategy operates at the nexus of capital, business, and government, transforming uncertainty into opportunity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Strategic research and consulting providing clarity and insights to your organisation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Strategy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Shape Agency was established to help organisations with a social interest objective achieve their communications goals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GRA Partners began in 2008 as GRA Everingham, and over the past fifteen years has evolved into Western Australia’s most trusted government relations and strategic communications…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Based in the creative, entrepreneurial space of HUB Sydney, Inside Policy is a national collaboration of experienced executives, project managers, social researchers…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “For more than twenty-five years, CPR has been a leading bi-partisan communications, issues management, and government relations consultancy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are experienced navigators of the complexities of policy and politics.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wilkinson Butler is a strategic communications and corporate affairs consultancy focused on building trust, enhancing reputation, and influencing change.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Australia's leading strategic communications consultancy The Public Relations Exchange is a dynamic consultancy that helps create strategic communications solutions for the public…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Risk management consulting practice specialising in all areas of operational risk and information risk: risk assessment, advisory, governance, reporting, investigation…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Horizon Communication Group is an integrated communications consultancy with offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane and network affiliations throughout Australia and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: issue management consultancies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names issue management consultancies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of issue management consultancies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name issue management consultancies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Issue management consultancies based in Australia at a glance
As of Sep 28, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Australia, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Australia, over 316 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among issue management consultancies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Australia whose own description of what they do matches “issue management consultancies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names issue management consultancies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among issue management consultancies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Australia are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 735 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 28, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names issue management consultancies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many issue management consultancies are there based in Australia?
RevenueBase identified 316 issue management consultancies headquartered in Australia as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
SEC Newgate Australia, headquartered in Sydney, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most issue management consultancies?
Melbourne leads with 64 headquartered companies, followed by Sydney (58) and Brisbane (35).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 735 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 316 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 28, 2026.
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About this data
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