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Why Australian Universities are struggling
From Initiate
Australian universities are struggling with the effects of poorly thought-through change. Governments have mined the sector for votes and for export dollars. But in their eagerness to conform, university managers have paid insufficient attention to the effects on the academic profession, and even less to the impacts on administrative staff.
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Innovating ‘below the radar’
From Initiate
Innovative public policy does not have to be big and splashy to be successful. Sometimes, being unobtrusive works best. In this case study on higher education links with Latin America, Wendy Jarvie shows how public servants can be innovators, too, particularly when they identify gaps and work with the policy environment.
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Time to Change the Paradigm
From Initiate
Government obsession with outcomes threatens productive engagement with Aboriginal communities. Wendy Jarvie argues that a new paradigm is needed if real change is to be achieved.
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Pathway to a post-federal Australia
From Initiate
Australian governance is ill-equipped for the future. Mark Drummond proposes a five-stage plan for moving beyond federalism to a unitary state based on strong local government. Such a change would also, for the first time, give indigenous Australians a workable method of representation.
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Practice is the way
From Initiate
Do you want to become a world class manager? If so, you’d better get lots of concentrated practice at relevant skills. It may be the only way.
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Governance and the novel
From Incubate
Novelists have much to teach political science. John Power reports on several key writers who help us to understand governance in periods of great change.
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Passion and the public servant
From Incubate
Passion is not only a necessary spur to action, but vital to propelling reform and managing change in the public sector. Reason alone will not suffice.
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Why policies fail
From Initiate
The policy challenges thrown up by climate change and biodiversity loss call for workable solutions but we suffer policy failures with worrying regularity. Do some recent failures in environment policy provide any clues of how to get it right?
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