The Centre for Policy Development has grown out of the policy development work of online magazine New Matilda. It is now an entirely seperate and independent organization. New Matilda was launched in August 2004 to promote truth and accountability in government, to provide an independent media outlet, and to develop policies based on the public good. A separate ‘policy portal’ … more
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. Articles by Miriam Lyons:
About us
The Centre for Policy Development is a new, independent public interest think tank. The Centre is a hothouse of creative, forward-looking ideas for fair and sustainable policy change. We work to reveal the important choices we face about the policies that affect our lives, by exploring new approaches to the relationship between governments, markets, society, and the environment. The short-term … more
Editorial: ideas for a complex world
After years of privatising and commodifying public assets and services, many governments are starting to look like they've shrunk in the wash (and faded in the spin cycle). The Policy Portal is dedicated to exploring ways of renewing the role of governments through meaningful policy change – learning from the failures of the past and finding new ways to grow and sustain our common wealth.
Editorial: the TAAA principle
Policy Coordinator Miriam Lyons ties a ribbon around 2006 and rips open the wrapping on the Policy Portal’s plans for 2007.
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INTRODUCTION: Ideas for an Australian media policy
The Centre for Policy Development is developing a series of discussion papers on media policy reform. In this introduction former Centre for Policy Development fellow Emma Dawson and current CPD Director Miriam Lyons argue that the failure to reinvent Australia’s media policy for a new media age is putting the health of our democracy at risk. more
Environment policy in Australia: beyond ‘business as usual’
The Centre for Policy Development invites you to contribute to a series of articles and discussion papers looking at how we can move beyond our current impasse on environmental policy. This series will attempt to unearth the basic principles that Australia’s policy makers need to uphold if true sustainability is to be achieved. more
Editorial: budget 2006
This week the Centre for Policy Development presents a special policy edition on the Budget. Some of Australia’s most respected economists, including John Quiggin, Steve Keen, and Frank Stilwell, look at the social and economic implications of last week’s Budget and find a lot of missed opportunities. After years of underinvestment in skills and infrastructure, we need economic management that reflects widely-held values such as fairness, ethical responsibility, and stewardship of our common future. more
DIY investigative journalism – just add source
Miriam Lyons argues that citizen journalism projects like SourceWatch could help halt the decline of investigative journalism. more
The Values of Rule of Law and Human Rights
In response to the principles identified by Eva Cox, and the questions that she and Ian McCauley have posed, I would place greater emphasis on the primary principle of respect for the rule of law and for human rights. Many of the principles outlined in her paper are, as I see it, ways of expressing human rights, both civil and political as well as economic and social.
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