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Geoffrey Edwards

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Dr Geoffrey Edwards is an Adjunct Professor, Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University. Educated first in biological science. Career in public parks and land management (two States and Papua New Guinea) and later in natural resource policy within the Queensland Government. Also served as municipal councillor and Shire President in Melbourne's Dandenong Ranges.

Articles by Geoffrey Edwards

  • Where are the guardians of Western civilisation when you need them? A riposte to the Prime Minister's expectation of the public service

    Where are the guardians of Western civilisation when you need them? A riposte to the Prime Minister's expectation of the public service

    Thursday August 29, 2019

    By Geoffrey Edwards

    • Australian Capital Territory

    Where are the guardians of Western civilisation when you need them? The Prime Minister’s address to the public service on 19 August should ring alarm…

  • How the Productivity Commission undermines scientific literacy in policy

    How the Productivity Commission undermines scientific literacy in policy

    Tuesday February 12, 2019

    By Geoffrey Edwards

    • Economy & Industry

    The absence of a scientific foundation in the PC reports explains why the Australian government itself seems impervious to scientific warnings about the impending collapse…

  • Why we need to stop paying executives for performance

    Why we need to stop paying executives for performance

    Monday January 21, 2019

    By Geoffrey Edwards

    • Editors' Picks

    There is an element of self-serving circularity in the arguments used to justify high executive salaries. But lowering the ceilings on SES pay could be…

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