Election 2016: Harsh truths for both sides on school funding, but we’ll just muddle on Labor and the Coalition should both wince while reading the latest report on school funding from the Centre for Policy
Outsourcing ‘pendulum has swung too far’ The contracting out of the delivery of public services has failed, rather than improved, the capacity of the public service
Outsourcing creates ‘alibis’ for bad service The trend towards outsourcing has eroded public sector capability, leading to poor outcomes for some of Australia’s most vulnerable, argues
Deepening Australia’s regional relationships through climate security This article was originally published on The Strategist for the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) on 3 December 2015 In
Jen Robinson: Protecting human rights is not a gift Back in 2008, one thousand of Australia’s “best and brightest brains” met at the 2020 Summit to map out a
Janet Holmes à Court: A new strategy for Corporate Australia’s gifts to the arts Coming as I do from a state that periodically suffers the boom and bust cycle inherent in the resources sector,
Fiona Sharkie: Giving people with a disability the opportunity to shine Imagine for a moment that everyone you interacted with on a daily basis only saw you for your shortfalls, and
Jennifer Doggett, Ian McAuley and John Menadue: No wonder we’re wasting money in health care – we got the incentives wrong A recently-aired ABC Four Corners program aptly titled “Wasted” exposed three areas of unnecessary, ineffective and outright dangerous health interventions,
Glyn Davis: Universities – translating the gift of good ideas across society at large The talk around universities has changed much in recent months. For the past two years we have been arguing about
