About the author Dr Geoff Edwards is adjunct professor at the Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University and a former state public servant and local government councillor.
Premium Columnists Election 2022: Policies need to stay in their lane April 27, 2022 By Geoff Edwards Editors' Picks The disbursement of public money from the federal government’s $660 million National Commuter Car Park Program and $250 million Community Sport Infrastructure Grant Program generated
Premium Insights and analysis Governing in the public interest requires cooperation, not just competition April 13, 2022 By Geoff Edwards Economy & Industry The elevation of competition as an objective of economic policy rather than simply as a technique to some really worthwhile objective can be dated to
Premium Insights and analysis Some plausible scenarios Australian governments may face in, say, 2030 September 3, 2021 By Geoff Edwards Editors' Picks When the state and commonwealth governments signed the National Strategy for Ecologically Sustainable Development in 1992, they consented to a farsighted clause that seems to
Premium Insights and analysis Governing in the public interest is about to become much harder August 20, 2021 By Geoff Edwards Communications & Technology If the COVID pandemic has taught Australia’s policy community anything, it should be that the decision-making machinery now in place for governing the federation is
Premium Insights and analysis Who shall rescue us from the meddlesome priests of ‘budget discipline’ rhetoric? Budgeting in the public interest post-COVID, part IV April 15, 2021 By Geoff Edwards Economy & Industry Politicians have endorsed a new public management that diverts funding from the continuous provision of public goods to ad hoc projects with greater or less
