Breaking the stalemate on asylum seekers and refugees II
It’s become increasingly clear that the High Court’s decision yesterday does more than block the ‘Malaysian Solution’. It also has the effect of radically challenging the validity and viability of a range of offshoring approaches to asylum seekers, both tried [...]
Breaking the stalemate on asylum seekers and refugees: How?
The CPD suggests a return to evidence-based policy on asylum seekers. The question is: how do we get there?
The public service and public values
The Centre for Policy Development has released an occasional paper as part of its Public Service Program, The State of the Australian Public Service: An alternative report. The report’s key findings include: a widening gap between the anti-public servant rhetoric [...]
So, how about that hospitals plan?
Tony Abbott’s performance in question time today, and the timing of his parental leave thought bubble more generally, suggest that his major imperative was to switch the topic of debate from health. That’s despite the Coalition running a very active [...]
CPD: Thinking Points on Climate Change
The Centre for Policy Development has released a new edition of its Thinking Points newsletter, on the topic of climate change. Miriam Lyons argues that “climate change is a problem which requires us to marshall the best of science and [...]
Centre for Policy Development: Research fellowship and ethical dollars
A quick post to plug a couple of things for the Centre for Policy Development: The Centre for Policy Development is pleased to announce we are seeking applications for a new Sustainable Economy Fellowship. The fellowship is generously sponsored by [...]
Government 2.0 and politics 2.0
There’s been a fair bit of interesting reading about government 2.0 initiatives (the new ‘branding’ for what used to be called e-democracy or e-government) lately; probably prompted by a summit on the topic in Washington DC and the Australian government’s [...]
CPD Insight: Upgrading Democracy
The Centre for Policy Development has released a new issue of its online magazine, Insight: As the internet continues to make transparency and collaboration cheaper and easier, governments around the world face increasing pressure to become more open and more [...]
Death, taxes and the Henry Review
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/death_and_taxes.jpg" The latest issue of the Centre for Policy Development‘s online mag, Insight, is out, and ‘Taxation for Our Times’ focuses on the Henry Review. I make no claims to any expertise in the technical aspects of taxation policy, [...]
BrisCulture, the CPD and Eidos Institute present 'Creative Brisbane' tonight at 6pm
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/creative-brisbane-2.JPG" Folks might remember I talked a while back about the ‘Creative Brisbane’ event we’re presenting tonight as part of the Brisbane CitySmart Innovation Festival. The response to both this conversation and to the BrisCulture concept has been really [...]
BrisCulture: Creative Brisbane
A lot of my academic and consultancy work at the moment is focused on online urbanism, distributed knowledge and urban creativity. I’m loath to use the term ‘action research’ loosely, but this form of public sociology is really impossible to [...]
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