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In the second instalment I promised to offer a sample investigative agenda which would avoid the flaws built in advance into the actual Letters Patent. What follows is not a definitive or exclusive solution, and others are welcome to work o...
In the first instalment of this series, I looked at the way the Royal Commission’s proceedings have been corrupted by overt bias. This time, I move on to suggest that the flaws were actually baked into the terms of reference before hearings...
Royal Commissions in Australia once enjoyed a fine reputation as informed, in-depth, non-partisan inquiries into the most wicked problems of public policy. Over the last few decades they have tended to deteriorate into diversionary measures...
This is my first cut at a meditation on what’s wrong with Australia’s governance today, motivated by last week’s Prime Ministerial address to the nation. I don’t suppose anyone’s going to read it, because it doesn’t look extreme enough, but...
Right from the beginning, I found it hard to understand how someone so clearly unsuitable as Jillian Segal was ever considered for a job created for the declared purpose of building social cohesion. Ever since she took up the job (an unelec...
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Retired policy researcher with the Australian parliament, other government agencies, and the Universities of Tasmania and NSW. 40 years of practical experience in policy analysis and evaluation, with an emphasis on solutions.
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