Articles by The Mandarin

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  The world mustn’t sleep-walk into another debt crisis

  Friday October 18, 2019

  By Patricia Scotland

  • Economy & Industry

  Rather than sleep-walking towards yet another debt crisis, and the misery such nightmare reality would bring, the Commonwealth can open up pathways toward horizons of…

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  Facts aren’t cure-alls, but they still matter. The new skills needed for dealing with a hugely changed flow of information and its impact on perception

  Thursday October 17, 2019

  By Bobby Duffy

  • Community & Social

  Informed by exclusive research across 40 countries, conducted by global polling firm Ipsos, 'The Perils of Perception' investigates why we don't know basic facts about…

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  Collaboration, consultation and civility: what Verity Firth learnt about contending with commercial lobbying when trying to deliver public health policy

  Monday October 14, 2019

  By Becky Freeman

  • Features

  Governments seeking to implement public health policy often face intense lobbying from industries vying to protect commercial interests. Verity Firth, former Deputy Lord Mayor of…

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  If you can bridge the gap in government silos, you might be a boundary spanner. Here are the seven skills you need to collaborate in government

  Friday October 11, 2019

  By Thea Snow

  • Features

  While the case for joined-up-government and cross-sectoral partnerships appears to have been convincingly made, the question of how to make this happen effectively still looms…

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  Best practice impact analysis — pursuing strong evidence-based policy

  Friday October 11, 2019

  By Jason Lange

  • Communications & Technology

  A memo to the APS from Jason Lange, Executive Director of The Office of Best Practice Regulation in the Department of the Prime Minister & Cabinet.

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  Most social media platforms weren’t designed for public engagement on policy. How to create media platforms that can ride democracy’s digital highway

  Thursday October 10, 2019

  By Audrey Lobo-Pulo

  • Communications & Technology

  Despite the sheer scalability, connectivity, and use as highways for political messaging and public debate, most social media platforms were not designed with the purpose…

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  Trends and priorities for Australia’s freedom of information practitioners — Right to Know Day 2019

  Tuesday October 8, 2019

  By Angelene Falk

  • Community & Social

  Speech by Australian Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner Angelene Falk to the Right to Know Day 2019 Information Contact Officer Network information session in Canberra on Sept. 24.

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  When we code the rules on which our society runs, we can create better results and new opportunities for the public and regulators, and companies looking to make compliance easier

  Tuesday October 1, 2019

  By Tim de Sousa & Pia Andrews

  • Communications & Technology

  Teams all over the world, including in Australia, are already experimenting with coding prescriptive rules in legislation, regulation and policy. Beyond just ‘regtech’, the approach…

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  Exploring the link between social policy and public trust

  Friday September 27, 2019

  By Brenton Prosser & John Butcher

  • Features

  There has been growing attention to the declining levels of public trust in our politicians, public, and democratic institutions. Our analysis suggests that history will…

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  Politics of the unmentionables, part 3: Sex

  Friday September 27, 2019

  By Scott Hamilton & Stuart Kells

  • Australian Capital Territory

  Despite its long and storied history, sex work is still poorly regulated and highly stigmatized. In many places it is illegal, and sex workers have…

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  Garran Oration 2019: Mick Dodson has seen the public service struggle with change and Indigenous decision-making, but there’s no need to be afraid

  Friday September 27, 2019

  By Mick Dodson

  • Culture

  Professor Mick Dodson, the first-ever Northern Territory Treaty Commissioner, delivered the Garran Oration at the IPAA National Conference, held in Darwin on 26 September 2019.

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  Public servants honoured with IPAA National Fellowships in 2019

  Thursday September 26, 2019

  By The Mandarin

  • Australian Capital Territory

  Ten new additions to the ranks of Institute of Public Administration Australia National Fellows were announced in Darwin last night. Professor Peter Shergold, who concludes…

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  What’s the most effective way to motivate staff? Performance pay schemes are trending again, but Allan Hawke saw distorted results

  Thursday September 26, 2019

  By Allan Hawke

  • Australian Capital Territory

  Allan Hawke is aware of the argument that performance pay is supposed to work in organisations where rewards constitute a significant part of total remuneration,…

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  Confronting the challenge of collaboration in a world obsessed with being in opposition

  Wednesday September 25, 2019

  By Paul Porteous

  • Australian Capital Territory

  Rather than processes, it may be the clashing of values that has reduced our tolerance for engaging alternative perspectives. Social capital, the once-lauded holy grail…

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  Little change in national health spending

  Wednesday September 25, 2019

  By The Mandarin

  • Health

  More than $185 billion, or almost $7,500 per person, was spent on health goods and services in Australia during 2017–18, according to a new report…

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