Meeting Australia’s climate targets will require new rules for government buying A new CPD report recommends strategic changes to state and federal procurement policies to accelerate Australia’s net zero transition and
Green goods: Strategies for decarbonising government purchasing in Australia The Green Goods report lays out a practical pathway for governments to work together on decarbonising the goods and services
On tour in New Zealand talking public sector capability During the week of Monday 20th June, Rob Sturrock (Policy Director) was in Wellington, New Zealand discussing the findings of Grand Alibis: How
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
Grand alibis: how declining public sector capability affects services for the disadvantaged Grand Alibis is a major report from the Centre for Policy Development’s Effective Government Program
McAuley and Lyons’ latest work Governomics considers the public sector’s beneficial output | 6 July 2015 CPD fellows Ian McAuley and Miriam Lyons explore the beneficial place of the public sector in their latest work Governomics. The
False economies, including Good, better, best Overall, the False economies series concludes that the way we discuss public service efficiency is damaging the country. The term’s
False economies – Definitions of efficiency Definitions of efficiency, from False economies: decoding efficiency The field of economics has developed a thorough understanding of the
