Miriam Lyons

Bio

Miriam Lyons is Director of the Centre for Policy Development.

Miriam Lyons's contributions:

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 back.

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.

Editorial: not just for Christmas - getting the government we deserve

Miriam Lyons introduces the first InSight edition of the year.

Editorial: how to clean up Canberra

Miriam Lyons looks at the history of 'open government' in Australia and introduces the Reclaiming Democracy edition.

Could a Labor government escape the Liberal legacy?

If it is to make real change, a future Labor government will need to resist the temptation to mimic its predecessor, writes Miriam Lyons in Online Opinion.

CPD launch speech - Miriam Lyons

"Many of today's policy failures are based on an unbalanced view of human nature and a blinkered view of the economy", said Miriam Lyons. "We'll be basing our policy development on the search for a better balance between markets, governments, society and the environment."

5 ideas in 5 minutes

In each edition of InSight we'll be profiling 5 innovative policy ideas from around the world. This month's ideas: Time banks | Feed-in tariffs | banning junk food advertising to children | the Alaska Permanent Fund | Circles of Care

DISCUSSION PAPER: Australia’s public broadcasters

In this draft discussion paper Emma Dawson and Miriam Lyons outline the basic principles that should underpin our public broadcasting policy, and suggest some ways to better equip the ABC and SBS to meet the needs of Australian citizens.

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.

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.

DIY investigative journalism - just add source

Miriam Lyons argues that citizen journalism projects like SourceWatch could help halt the decline of investigative journalism.


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