Amanda Bailey

Faith Housing Australia

Amanda is an accomplished public affairs executive across strategic communications, public relations and stakeholder engagement. She has more than ten years’ experience delivering highly successful campaigns in both the corporate and not-for-profit sectors, focusing on social impact and advocacy.

Amanda led the team to develop Wesley Mission’s renewed advocacy strategy, enabling collaborations from service experts and voices of lived experience to launch the ‘Put Pokies in Their Place’ platform. From a standing start, poker machine reform became a major election issue in the 2023 NSW State Election, with the campaign receiving more than 2,000 pieces of earned media coverage, an estimated reach of more than two billion and leading to significant philanthropic contributions.