A former director will be the guest speaker at The Illawarra Connection’s black tie networking dinner at the Novotel Wollongong Northbeach on October 3.
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OmniPoll founding partner Martin O'Shannessy is returning home for the night after growing up in Wollongong, attending the University of Wollongong and beginning his career as a commercial cadet at AIS Collieries.
He later worked as an advisor for Lord Mayor and Member for Wollongong Frank Arkell and was the chief executive officer of Illawarra Regional Information Service (IRIS Research) for over a decade. Between 2005 and 2015, as CEO for Newspoll, he was Australia’s highest profile opinion pollster and has a 100 per cent record in estimating state and federal election outcomes at IRIS Research and at Newspoll. In those roles he has surveyed over two million Australians.
In the last 25 years, Mr O'Shannessy has advised Australian firms, associations and governments in hundreds of studies.
His leadership experience includes six years as manager of research and regulatory affairs at AANA and chairman of Research Industry employer body AMSRO.
At the October 3 TIC dinner Mr O'Shannessy will provide a personal insight about our Australian polls and whether, given the failure of US polls to predict the outcome of the Presidential Election, they can still be relied upon.
The dinner will include the announcement of the recipient of the 2017 TIC / UOW Sydney Business School Postgraduate Scholarship.
Some of Mr O'Shannessy’s diverse career highlights:
- Conducting a socio-economic study that led to construction of Sea Cliff Bridge
- Lead social researcher assisting the expert panel on Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians.
- Marginal seat study for GMH and Auto makers that led to reinstatement of Automotive Adjustment Scheme in 2015.
- Background research supporting the case for adoption of NDIS as ALP Policy.
- Public opinion research for Catholic Church prior to recent Royal Commission
- Public opinion research behind anti Mining Tax campaign.
- Public opinion research behind container deposit in NT.
- Campaign research (for GetUp!) that led to the release of David Hicks.
- Only pollster to call the Greens in the 2002 Cunningham by-election..