Campaigns & Communications Group

Campaigns & Communications Group is an Australian company founded by Bruce Hawker as a specialised election campaign and communications advisory firm in 2011. He was formerly Chairman and co-founder of the government relations and lobbying firm Hawker Britton, established with David Britton in 1997. Hawker is aligned with the Australian Labor Party, and he has worked as a campaign strategist and adviser on more than 30 State, Federal and Australian territory election campaigns.

Bruce Hawker is a leading political strategist and commentator and chairman of Campaigns and Communications Group. Before this, Hawker was Chief of Staff to former New South Wales Premier Bob Carr MP from 1995 to 1997 and Chief of Staff to Bob Carr MP while he was Leader of the Opposition in NSW from 1989 to 1995.

In 2008, Hawker was named by The Sydney Morning Herald as one of Sydney’s most influential people. In 2011, The Sydney Morning Herald nominated Hawker in its “50 most powerful people” as one of the top five political powerbrokers. Bruce Hawker was described in 2010 by the Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard, as a “wise elder” of the Australian Labor Party. Hawker has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Queensland and a Law degree from the University of New South Wales.

In June 2013, Hawker was appointed Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's Political Adviser, a position he held until the Government's defeat in the Australian federal election, 2013 in September 2013. Following the election, Melbourne University Publishing published his campaign diaries, The Rudd Rebellion: The Campaign to Save Labor.

Hawker is a regular contributor to the media, writing opinion pieces and editorials for The Sydney Morning Herald and frequently appearing in interviews on Sky News and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. When it was suggested that he was resigning from Hawker Britton due to the thinning out of state Labor governments, Hawker dismissed these suggestions saying, "We've always worked on the basis that Labor governments will come and Labor governments will go, we've always tried to assist in the election of Labor governments, but we are realistic and pragmatic enough to understand no government lasts forever."

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