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. more
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Democratic renewal – filling the gaps
Much of my thinking on the questions listed in the governance
background paper has been shaped by contributors to the Centre for
Policy Development – a couple of whom, Janette Hartz-Karp and Lyn Carson, are participants in the governance stream, while others, like Marcus Westbury, have ended up elsewhere.
My 2020 homework
Along with all the other 2020 Summiteers I was given homework to complete by yesterday afternoon. We had to answer two questions:
1. Provide a 100 word description of an idea that you think will make a difference to your stream topic (in my case ‘the future of Australian governance’.
2. Write 100 words on an issue on which you have changed your mind, and explain why.
Freedom of information
FOI links:
http://www.article19.org/pdfs/standards/modelfoilaw.pdf
http://www.opengovjournal.org/
Principles:
Maximum disclosure, allowable exemptions only
Key questions:
how do you avoid the allowable exemptions from being exploited?
how do you stop a more rigorous foi regime from driving really important conversations ‘off record’ – if you can’t, does this matter?
CPD blogs are go
As promised, CPD blogs have arrived. Staff and fellows will be blogging about their latest research, posting links to relevant publications and events, and discussing their ideas on key CPD issues and themes. Depending on how the blog section goes, we may also invite guest bloggers from outside the CPD community to join discussions or write posts on specific issues.
Austrians and Australian public ideas
Ian McAuley detects the influence of Polanyi – the other Austrian economist – in Kevin Rudd’s recent speech to the CIS.
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