John Menadue | Talking policy sense in response to asylum seeker deaths
John Menadue, CPD founder and former Head of the Department of Immigration, joins ABC Radio National’s Fran Kelly to discuss the recent deaths of eight asylum seekers in a boat that sank off Java....
Laura Eadie | ABC Local Radio Newcastle
CPD researcher Laura Eadie appeared on ABC 1233 Newcastle Local Radio this morning – interviewed by Jill Emberson – talking about Australia’s future sustainable economy and the increasing recognition of climate change in Australian...
PUBLIC SERVICE IN THE NEWS | UK continues to analyse ‘Big Society’ reforms and with it comes increasing criticism
Accounting for the new philanthropy > Britain’s Big Society initiatives exemplify a new regime: Rather than fund public programs directly, the state will incentivize private investment in public outcomes. After all, since markets are...
Ben Eltham | And it passed! Australia Sets A Price on Pollution
As the carbon tax passes the Senate, NM’s national affairs correspondent Ben Eltham looks at the historical significance of today’s vote This momentous change to Australia’s economic architecture has been a long time coming....
Ben Eltham | A Naked Conflict Between Profits And Wages
The IR dispute that stopped the nation is a handy yardstick for gauging just how hostile our general public conversation has become to organised labour, writes Ben Eltham “The enigma of trade is that...
James Arvanitakis | It’s a bit rich to just dismiss the poor Occupiers
The Occupy movement has certainly been grabbing many headlines over the last two weeks. One area of contention has been the protestor’s agenda (or lack there of according to some). James Arvanitakis, writing for...
Ben Eltham | Will negative Abbott get a positive result?
Just how negative, opportunistic and hollow is Tony Abbott as Opposition Leader? Does it really matter? And is it really working in Australian political space? Ben Eltham, building off Laura Tingle’s Australian Financial Review criticism of Tony Abbott, looks...
Chris Bonnor | Schooling in leadership
When you think about it, politics in todays developed world is amongst the few pursuits that do not require specific training, especially within party and poltical leadership. All an aspiring politician must do is...
GovCampNSW | Sydney, November 19
GovCamp is an open, ‘unconference’ style discussion format and aims to simply provide a space to share ideas ranging from eGov, Gov 2.0 and opengov to innovation for public sector resilience. GovCampNSW...
PUBLIC SERVICE IN THE NEWS | UK’s public sector reforms favour private sector, ‘Big Society’ reforms spread to Eurozone and Canada
UK’s Public services white paper favours private sector, says UK’s Trades Union Congress > Publishing its response to the coalition’s Open public services white paper today, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) says that there...