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About Miriam Lyons

Miriam Lyons is the Executive Director of the Centre for Policy Development. Formerly the Policy Coordinator of New Matilda, Miriam has a long history of bringing policy ideas to new audiences, as the founding director of the Interface Festival of Ideas in Sydney, and director of the Ideas Program for the StraightOutof Brisbane Festival. Miriam has also worked as a freelance writer and a media development consultant in East Timor with the international NGO, Internews. Miriam was a participant in the 2020 Summit and was recently nominated in the Thinkers’ category of The Australian’s Emerging Leaders series.

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What does an Obama win mean for Australia?

Barack Obama’s victory represents a watershed in American history, but it will also have ramifications around the world. Before I head out to celebrate I thought I’d just bash out a few quick notes on… more

Blindness to our biases led us to tears

Miriam Lyons and James Murray wrote about behavioural economics and the global financial crisis for The Age

Victorian government takes up the open access agenda

1 state down, 5 more & a couple of territories to go!

They work for us

Good news. In a testament to the parallel evolution of ideas, it turns out that one of the projects I advocated at the 2020 Summit was already being built at the time:

Fixing politics: short-term gain vs long-term pain

Miriam Lyons looked at whether our political system is up to the challenges of the 21st century in Crikey

Senior position available

CPD is looking for a senior researcher to add to our core team. Click here to read more.

Miriam Lyons on ABC1′s Q and A with Tony Jones

CPD Director Miriam Lyons will take her place on the Q and A panel next Thursday 3 July from 9:30pm on ABC1.

A New Progressive Consensus?

We asked delegates to the 2020 Summit for an appraisal of the proceedings and the ideas which emerged throughout the weekend. CPD Director Miriam Lyons, Stephen Leeder, Lyn Carson, Jon Altman and Bill Bowtell report… more

CPD blogs now enabled

Hi folks, The blog is now up and running at http://cpd.org.au/blogs, and individual blog posts are now appearing as they’re supposed to – see http://cpd.org.au/node/4585 for an example. However, as you’ll see if you go… more