Chris Bonnor | Schooling In Leadership
Commitment to long-term reform, encouraging and engaging with an inspirational flare. Unfortunately these are not the qualities of our political leaders but they are the leadership styles of many school principals. Perhaps the later...
Seeking Justice | Discussion of Four Corners report 9 November
What are the options available to the Australian government for a humane approach to processing asylum seekers? Why are we building more detention facilities rather than focusing on moving asylum seekers out of detention?...
Ben Eltham | Will Negative Abott Get a Positive Result?
Is negativity itself a viable policy? A vow to repeal every major government achievement if he gains office makes an Abbott-lead Liberal Party not only an negative Opposition but a potentially negative government as...
James Arvanitakis | It’s A Bit Rich to Dimiss the Poor Occupiers
They might not have a clear message, an easy catchphrase or the funding of your traditional lobby groups but the Occupy movement should not be dismissed as irrelevant and opportunist. Their broad concern, that...
PUBLIC SERVICE IN THE NEWS | NZ citizens happy with public services, evidence reveals UK’s public services are breaking down and UK charities are flailing
There’s little charity in the Work Programme > Charities are losing out on contracts to get people into jobs through the government’s Work Programme, and vulnerable jobseekers are being sidelined. Two separate surveys published this...
Mark Bahnisch | Living in the Howard Era 2011
The Howard years seem to many an increasingly distant memory, but how much has the government changed since the LNP’s historic defeat in 2007? Mark Bahnisch believes the social democratic promise of newly elected...
Ben Eltham | Sniff this, business lobby: the odourless whiff of defeat
The much awaited carbon tax finally looks to be enacted in Australia. After having been passed through the House of Representatives, the tax is very much expected to pass the Senate and will begin...
Ben Eltham | Finally! Labor Governs Like It’s Their Job
The governments tax summit and jobs summit are both over and have we learned anything from them? Ben Eltham thinks we have and has written in New Matilda how both of these forums play...
Mark Bahnisch | The Bolt case: cutting through pontification to find motive
Mark Bahnisch, in ABC’s The Drum, analyses the outcome of Andrew Bolt’s recent racial discrimination lawsuit. Other commentators on the case have argued that Andrew Bolt’s comments should have been charged under defamation laws...
CPD at Aprecon
CPD’s public service research team enjoyed participating in ‘People First’ – the 12th Regional Asia Pacific Aprecon public service conference, spruiking our research and publications. We...