Michael is unique, in that he has experience working with political parties across the political spectrum.
He was chief pollster for the Liberal Party of Australia for several years, including at the 2019 and 2022 Federal Election campaigns.
Before that, when he was Head of Polling at BMG Research, he was chief pollster for the UK Labour Party. This includes the 2017 UK General Election, which was one of the most successful campaigns in British electoral history, with a more than 20pt swing towards the Labour Party over the course of the campaign.
Michael has also conducted research for the National Party of Australia, the UK Liberal Democrats, the UK Independence Party, the National Party in New Zealand, and several other political parties and candidates for elections across the world.

Danita Lowes spends her time managing various portfolio interests, including investments in the tech sector. She has worked in senior roles in the United States, Australia and Japan. Previous positions include Managing Director for Telstra Mobiles, Managing Director for Telstra Broadband/Media, Senior Advisor to NTT DoCoMo and Strategic Advisor to the Executive Director of Seven Network. She began her career as a consultant with McKinsey & Company in New York, Sydney and Melbourne.

Danita has a Juris Doctorate (Honors) from Stanford University, a Diploma in Legal Studies from Oxford University and a Bachelor of Science (Highest Honors) in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University.

Danita is a self-described US political junkie. Her hometown is Jackson, Missouri. She is the mother to three undergraduates at Stanford University.

Bruce Hawker is one of Australia’s most influential leading political experts with an unrivalled 40 year career in campaigning across the nation and a central figure in some of the Australian Labor Party’s greatest wins at Federal and State level. Working at the highest levels of government, including a seven-year period as Chief of Staff to NSW Premier Bob Carr and as Senior Political Adviser to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

Bruce pioneered Australia’s government affairs consulting sector, as founder and CEO of Hawker Britton, where he acted for a wide range of corporate clients including Westpac, Macquarie Bank, Telstra, Fujitsu, Boral, Abigroup, Clubs NSW and many more. As Special Counsel, Bruce offers Fitzpatrick & Co clients an unrivalled understanding of government and political decision making.

In a 40-year professional campaign career he has played a central role in the election and re-election of every Labor Premier in Australia between 1995 and 2009 as well as Prime Ministers Rudd and Gillard. He appears regularly as a leading political commentator in the media including weekly on Sky News.

Eamonn has spent more than 30 years in media, political campaigning, and corporate advisory in Australia, Asia and the UK and has represented some of the world’s biggest brands including Uber, Google and many top ASX 100 companies in effectively engaging government and the media.

He began his career as a journalist at the South China Morning post in Hong Kong and later worked for the Sydney Morning Herald before switching to government communications. He has advised Labor leaders across Australia in senior roles at federal and state level, including as senior press secretary to Prime Ministers Gillard and Rudd and leading government communications for Premiers and Treasurers in NSW and Queensland. With experience at the highest levels of government, Eamonn provides clients with a clear understanding of how to effectively engage with political and bureaucratic decision makers across the country.

Eamonn is currently overseeing the company’s expansion into ASEAN and advising companies on how to engage with governments in the world’s fastest growing economic region.