Insights and practical guides
These articles explain corporate affairs and engagement decisions, with practical guidance for people commissioning or doing the work. The collection includes an engagement handover guide with a printable checklist and an expressly invented example.
Corporate affairs
Start with what corporate affairs does, the comparison with public relations or the guide to planning a year of corporate affairs work. Each addresses a different management question.
Engagement and delivery
The engagement articles cover choosing what people can influence, understanding community support and relating consultation to approval processes. The handover guide is the detailed resource for transferring commitments between teams.
Energy and policy
The energy articles connect public planning and regulatory processes with the work of project and corporate affairs teams. The articles distinguish published decisions from proposals and planning assumptions.
Articles and guides
Reviewing your corporate affairs plan for 2027
Connect energy planning, engagement requirements and proposed AI use to the decisions, outputs and responsibilities in your corporate affairs plan.
Community engagement through an energy project
Plan community engagement through development, assessment, construction and operation, with information and responsibilities suited to each project stage.
Understanding community support
Understand community support, the Australian policy context and the limits of consultation evidence. Learn whose views and conditions are represented.
Corporate affairs in renewable energy
Coordinate policy, project milestones and public claims in renewable energy development. Distinguish responsibilities and infrastructure dependencies.
Corporate affairs and public relations
Compare corporate affairs and public relations, identify overlapping responsibilities and write a brief around the decision, audience and output you need.
Engagement handover guide
Carry engagement commitments between teams with a practical guide, an invented example and a printable checklist for responsibilities and evidence.
Preparing an approach to government in South Australia
Prepare an approach to the South Australian Government around the decision sought, supporting evidence, relevant process and responsibilities for follow-up.
Infrastructure approvals and community support
Distinguish statutory approval from community support, explain conditions accurately and plan responses to concerns after an approval decision.
Planning a year of corporate affairs work
Build a corporate affairs plan around the decisions ahead, the work and resources each decision needs, and the points for reviewing progress.
Engagement and mining approvals in South Australia
Understand the lease and operational approval stages described by South Australia’s mining department, and how engagement informs project decisions.
South Australia’s energy transition: decisions and engagement
Connect South Australia’s electricity system context with project decisions and engagement. Use dated planning sources and distinguish forecasts from results.
Planning stakeholder engagement in Australia
Plan engagement around participant influence, access, suitable methods and reporting. Understand the IAP2 spectrum and the limits of response evidence.
What corporate affairs does
Understand corporate affairs as a management function: its advice, the relationships it covers, its responsibilities and how to assess its contribution.
Start with what
you need to decide
SCA defines the engagement or corporate affairs work the decision ahead needs. The first conversation establishes the issue, timing and information available.