Participatory governance and the Indigenous agenda: From rhetoric to reality
The Rudd Government is off to a good start with its determination to right the wrongs of past decades and to confront a set of seemingly intractable indigenous issues; a determination to move quickly...
Renovating the constitution – why delay?
The issue of the Republic and Constitutional reform has been been relegated to a ‘second term issue’ under the Rudd Government. In the event of a referendum, voters would first be asked if they...
InSight Edition | March 2008
Photo courtesy of John Perivolaris.
InSight Edition | February 2008
The new government will not have the luxury of avoiding difficult issues, but it must also avoid the temptation to play Santa and drop policy solutions on the populace like packages down a chimney.
Climate change litigation – the heat is on
If it has taken governments so long to accept the reality of climate change, how long will it take them to agree on finding solutions? Will they look for the best way of tackling...