2025 News

(Picture) The Honourable Robert Fordham AM Deputy Premier of Victoria 1982-1989 with Dr Jamie Hogan in Sale in March 2024.

Jamie been been addressing some involved and intense planning matters, in consultation with highly respected Town Planners. and his consultants including planning projects in places such as Ballarat, Latrobe Valley and East Gippsland, In addition he has been working on some involved and sensitive political matters.

With an intensive business accoutrement, Jamie has undertaken political activism and advocacy, business establishment and corporate coaching in addition to governance training, policy and procedure development and advising a number of community organisations.

In 2024 he helped establish a think tank on government policy and rural affairs, the Derek Amos Institute of Public and Political Affairs which has now transitioed into an independent association in 2025.

In more news Jamie has been elected for another term on the National Board of Youth Workers Australia Inc as National Treasurer and has been elected as National Chairperson of the Advocacy Institute of Australia Inc.  He is currently undertaking accreditation auditing for Youth Work degrees across Australia for various universities and Vet providers.

Jamie has taken on in 2025 the honorary role of Chief Executive Officer at the Advocacy Institute of Austlia using his office as its headquaters.

Strategic planning is not just a matter of making some notes and then attempting to implement these on a day to day basis. Strategic planning is about research and overall annual implementation.

Comparing the markets, making sure your mission and aims and objectives are up to date and still relevant, ensuring that as you develop your strategic plan it meets these vital elements. Strategic planning should always be done collaboratively and not in isolation.

Jamie has developed a number of new clients in our Advocacy and lobbying work in 2022/2023 and 2023/24 and now have clients that we regularly work with.

Since his semi-retirment Jamie has retained retained the services of a number of consultants such as Irini Casey from RTO Consultants, Derek Amos OAM JP from Derek Amos Consulting former member of parliament and John Sier retired real estate consultant and possibly the highest qualified and recognized person in that industry in Australia.

In 2025 Jamie changed the corporate name from jamie Hogan Advocate and Lobbyist to Jamie Hogan Australia including all associated branding to better reflect what he is now doing, in and out of semi-retirement.

During 2024 Jamie made a run for a seat on the Wellington shire council but was narrowly defeated however managed to help a number of candidates in other municipalities in both Melbourne metro and rural to get elected.

Jamie has been advising a number of politions in Victoria on policy and on various community based issues for a number of years and continues to do that.

Jamie has been doing some pro-bono para-legal work and tribunal representation for people suffering mental issues. These include but not limitred to criminal matters, NDIS matters including plan adiustment and plan provision challeges, compulsory treatment proposals and custody matters. Jamie specilizes in helping young people in this area given his youth work experience.

Helping community groups has been a passion and Jamie continues to assist a number of NDIS service providers, community groups and education providers with good governance, leadership, succession planning, developing policy and procedure and in some cases acting as a moderator/ adjudicator regarding complaints and disputes within the community services industry, education sector and corporate worlds.