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By Mark Bahnisch on August 24, 2010
If there’s one thing that’s clear from the events of recent days, it is that a minority government led by Julia Gillard could not represent business as usual for the Labor party. So what should a Gillard minority government look [...]
Posted in Climate change, federal election 2010, Government, Policy | Tagged ALP, Climate change, ets, Federal Election 2010, gillard minority government, hung parliament, Julia Gillard, Labor, new politics, parliamentary reform, process, public policy, Rob Oakeshott, Sussex Street |
By Guest Poster on August 23, 2010
Ben Harris-Roxas is a Research Fellow at the UNSW Research Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity. When he’s not talking about health impact assessment he makes a nuisance of himself on Twitter: @ben_hr. The entrails of the weekend’s result [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Policy | Tagged ben harris-roxas, electoral reform, Henry Tax review, hung parliament, Independents, Julia Gillard, parliamentary reform, process, public policy, Rob Oakeshott |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 3, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Blogging, Media, Policy, Politics, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Centre for Policy Development, citizen consultation, citizen engagement, CPD, democracy 2.0, government 2.0 taskforce, internet, Lindsay Tanner, participation, public policy, upgrading democracy, web, web 2.0, web and politics |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 4, 2009
Guy Rundle has written an excellent piece on the human and political dimensions of Utegate, which I’m reproducing from Crikey, with permission, over the fold. NB: Previous discussion of Utegate at LP can be accessed here.
Posted in Disasters, Ethics, Life, Policy, Politics | Tagged APS, Australian public service, Australian Story, Crikey, godwin grech, Guy Rundle, liberal leadership, Malcolm Turnbull, OzCar, public policy, scandal, Tony Abbott, Tony Abott, Utegate |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 26, 2009
<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 [...]
Posted in Blogging, Brisbane, Culture, Notices, Sociology | Tagged arts, Blogging, Brisbane, Brisbane City Council, BrisCulture, Bruce Muirhead, Centre for Policy Development, CitySmart Innovation Festival, connectivity, Creative Brisbane, creative futures, creativity, cultural policy, cultural sociology, cultural studies, Culture, curation, Danielle Bentley, Eidos Institute, festivals, Ideas Festival, Innovation Australia, Jaz Choi, Linda Carroli, Marcus Westbury, Mark Bahnisch, Music, Policy, public art, public policy, Queensland, sociality, Urbanism, web |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 28, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Activism, Art, Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Brisbane, Culture, Media, Music, Notices, Policy, Sociology, The Web, Urbanism | Tagged arts, Blogging, Brisbane, Brisbane City Council, BrisCulture, Centre for Policy Development, CitySmart Innovation Festival, connectivity, Creative Brisbane, creative futures, creativity, cultural policy, cultural sociology, cultural studies, Culture, curation, Eidos Institute, festivals, Ideas Festival, Innovation Australia, Mark Bahnisch, Music, Policy, public art, public policy, Queensland, sociality, The Valley, Urbanism, web |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 29, 2009
For anyone following the declining fortunes of the newspaper (and perhaps of journalism), there’s some interesting reading on the intertubes today. At Inside Story, MEAA communications director Jonathan Este takes a look at the trends – and the different strategies [...]
Posted in Media | Tagged future of journalism, journalism, Media, media futures, media studies, newspapers, public policy |
By Kim on December 19, 2008
End of year reflection on the state of politics and the nation type articles can be interesting. They can be tedious rehashes of trivia and reinventions of an already distorted reality to prove punditarian narratives r us and are ace [...]
Posted in Activism, Climate change, Economics, Energy, Federal Elections, Foreign Elections, International, Markets, Media, Policy, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged Activism, barack obama, bernard keane, citizen engagement, Climate change, cprs, economic management, emissions trading, Glenn Stevens, interest rates, John Hewson, Kevin Rudd, neoliberalism, political sociology, Politics, public policy, reserve bank, Rick Warren, Rudd government, US election 2008, white paper, year in review |
By Guest Poster on December 17, 2008
Republished from Crikey with permission. Since it was announced in April, barely a peep has been heard from the Grattan Institute, Kevin Rudd’s $50 million super think tank named after a street abutting Melbourne University. Headed by ex-McKinsyite John Daley, [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Catalyst, cis, Gerard Henderson, Glyn Davis, Grattan Institute, ideas, IPA, John Roskam, Kevin Rudd, Lelbourne University, managerialism, OzProspect, PerCapita, policy making, public policy, Rudd government, Sydney institute, Terry Moran, think tanks |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 6, 2008
Picking up on Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens’ remarks about “borrowing to invest” and not being afraid of a deficit if there are good policy outcomes to be had, eight prominent economists (including a couple of blogging ones) have written [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Environment, Industrial Relations, Markets, Middle East, Policy, Sociology | Tagged economic management, economic policy, economists, eight economists, fiscal policy, fiscal stimulus, Gough Whitlam, Industrial Relations, infrastructure bank, Julie Bishop, Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Turnbull, Nicholas Gruen, open letter, policy process, Politics, public policy, Rudd government, super, superannuation, Wayne Swan |
By Guest Poster on November 5, 2008
Director of the Centre for Policy Development Miriam Lyons writes: Barack Obama’s victory represents a watershed in American history, but it will also have ramifications around the world. Before I head out to celebrate I thought I’d just bash out [...]
Posted in Australiana, Climate change, Developing world, Economics, Environment, Foreign Elections, Foreign policy, Government, Immigration, International, Markets, Policy, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged Afghanistan, aid, Australian implications, barack obama, behavioural economics, center for american progress, Climate change, copenhagen negotiations, CPD, Democrats, economic policy, Foreign policy, Garnaut, green jobs, green Keynesianism, international development, john podesta, Miriam Lyons, multilateralism, public policy, think tanks, UN, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
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