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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:

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

What about the fourth estate?

Questions from the background paper which are relevant to this discussion:

5 2020 ideas in 5 minutes

In this installment of ’5 ideas in 5 minutes’, we present a selection of ideas which delegates will be taking to the Australia 2020 summit this weekend.

Your ideas on the future of Australian governance

So, I’ve been invited to attend the upcoming Australia 2020 Ideas Summit. Here’s the spiel on the section that I’ll be attending: TITLE: The future of Australian governance: open government (including the role of the… more

CPD Road Test: Mersey Hospital Takeover

Jennifer Doggett

With so many design faults, the Mersey Hospital takeover will have engine failure before it leaves the garage, write Jennifer Doggett and Edwina Burns.

CPD health fact sheets

We have prepared 5 simple fact sheets to outline where health policy is currently at – and where the major parties are promising to take it after Saturday’s election.

Are these promises built to last?

The election campaign trail is a bad place to go looking for good policies. As CPD fellow Mark Bahnisch writes over at New Matilda: