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Top 25 Policy research consulting firms based in Australia
RevenueBase identified 160 policy research consulting firms headquartered in Australia as of September 2026 and tracks 946 professional contacts across them, including 410 with verified work emails. Melbourne is the largest hub.
This list covers policy research consulting firms 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 29, 2026.
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The 25 largest policy research consulting firms based in Australia
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With a primary focus on financial services, CoreData Group provides clients with both bespoke and syndicated research services through a variety of data collection strategies and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We use economics, data and strategy to provide analysis, insights and advice to governments, businesses and organisations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Taverner Research is a full service customised market and social research provider specialising in both commercial and government work.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Australia Institute is one of the country’s most influential public policy think tanks.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ember Advisors blends strategy consulting with data and analytics to support public sector clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Whereto is Australia’s most effective research-based consultancy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Noetic challenges clients to think differently and adopt new approaches to find solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “China Policy is a policy analysis and strategic advisory firm headquartered in Beijing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are your partner in the boardroom, staffroom, newsroom and courtroom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Urban Enterprise is a team of consultants specialising in urban planning, property economics, tourism planning, economic development and research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1993, Market Solutions has grown into a prominent and well respected market and social research company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Astrolabe Group are the recognised experts in planning and change management delivering positive impact for client and community.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Strategic research and consulting providing clarity and insights to your organisation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “For more than 30 years, Micromex Research and Consulting has enjoyed an enviable reputation for providing quality, results driven, research and engagement programs that underpin…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Value Advisory Partners delivers strategic analysis and insights to clients to meet their business and/or policy objectives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Supporting organisations to increase the positive impact of their services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Welcome to Australian Survey Research Group (ASR) a talented team of market research consultants and technical specialists based in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Bluebird our mission is to empower Government Agencies, Businesses and Academia to achieve their goals through providing trusted advice, data driven insights and tailored…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Insight Consulting Australia is a small, high quality consultancy of people selected for their depth of experience and proven results in human services, public policy, strategy…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our team of corporate advisors, strategists and public affairs professionals solve problems and build networks.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “MH Consulting Group (MHC) is a niche practice that specialises in research strategy, evaluation and review, governance strategy and programs implementation and evaluation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nexus has over 22 years’ experience helping government and community organisations change for the better to produce better results for their communities and clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “When you need an expert consulting team that genuinely understands regional Australia, BlueSalt Consulting delivers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Management consulting company focusing on- strategy, public and corporate policy - management and planning - standards, quality and compliance - capacity building and change…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 29, 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: policy research consulting firms. 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 policy research consulting firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of policy research consulting firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name policy research consulting firms. 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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Policy research consulting firms based in Australia at a glance
As of Sep 29, 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 160 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 policy research consulting firms, 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 “policy research consulting firms”. 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 policy research consulting firms), 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 policy research consulting firms, 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, 410 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 29, 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 policy research consulting firms, 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 policy research consulting firms are there based in Australia?
RevenueBase identified 160 policy research consulting firms 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?
Coredata Group, headquartered in Sydney, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most policy research consulting firms?
Melbourne leads with 30 headquartered companies, followed by Sydney (30) and Canberra (13).
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 410 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 160 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 29, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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