Articles by The Mandarin

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  Today's problems, yesterday's toolkit: new report pinpoints the public problem solving skills gap

  Wednesday August 14, 2019

  By The Mandarin

  • News

  A new report says public servants are being asked to solve today’s public problems with yesterday’s toolkit, and has proposed three focus areas to fix…

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  Great powers competition, technology, and how Australia can take advantage of the opportunities our region offers

  Tuesday August 13, 2019

  By The Mandarin

  • Defence

  Here is Martin Parkinson’s speech delivered to the Asia Briefing Live Economy and Business Session in Sydney on 8 August. It is clear that the…

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  Legislating the B Corp standard for Australia's 'purpose-driven' corporations

  Friday August 9, 2019

  By Jennie McLaughlin

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  A proposed bill is calling for legislation of the B Corp standard in Australia. The B stands for Beneficial, and indicates the certified organisation voluntarily meets certain…

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  Richard Di Natale: cooperating on policy. You won't get anywhere if you assume you can't have open and frank conversation with people. I haven’t been burnt yet

  Thursday August 8, 2019

  By Scott Hamilton & Stuart Kells

  • Editors' Picks

  Senator Richard Di Natale shares his insights on political bipartisanship, and particularly on how the medicinal cannabis laws followed an unlikely meeting of minds with…

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  Less talk, more action needed on the Melbourne Declaration

  Wednesday August 7, 2019

  By Zoran Endekov

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  The outcomes of the current review into the Melbourne Declaration requires a roadmap for delivery or it risks another decade of failure to deliver on…

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  Peter Costello on the independence of the public service 'view', the future of policy advice, and when Treasury secretaries were treated harshly

  Wednesday August 7, 2019

  By Peter Costello

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  Peter Costello tackles the thorny issue of where, when and how a department of state should be having its own view, and what does that…

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  The great Treasury juggle: providing the minister with fearless advice (even if it causes discomfort), while keeping the government's political strategists happy

  Monday August 5, 2019

  By Paul Tilley

  • Features

  Paul Tilley tracks how Treasury’s role has evolved over its history, from the government’s bookkeeper at Federation to the economic policy agency of today. His…

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  What’s wrong with best practice? How the quest for certainty affects the agility and innovation needed for organisations to thrive

  Friday August 2, 2019

  By Daniel Thornton

  • Editors' Picks

  We see all around us the evidence that science works. For many years there has been an effort to apply scientific thinking to management. In…

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  Study what makes you unsuccessful, unhappy, broke, unhealthy, stupid. Then, eliminate those things from your life

  Thursday August 1, 2019

  By Darius Foroux

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  Do you really think you’ll be successful if you simply copy what other people do? If that were the case, success would be easy. Here…

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  Policy models are powerful decisionmaking tools, but backward-looking bias and lax application mean they can also be seductive and misleading

  Thursday August 1, 2019

  By Claire Craig

  • Communications & Technology

  Dr Claire Craig on the potential and the risks of using models in policymaking.

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  AI was supposed to help this city recruit staff for local kindergartens. Denied transparency, parents compared results to understand the automated decisionmaking

  Tuesday July 30, 2019

  By Krzysztof Izdebski

  • Communications & Technology

  Krzysztof Izdebski, Policy Director at Poland's ePanstwo Foundation, says citizens and decisionmaking officials are deprived when only companies creating tools for public institutions have the…

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  National gongs for digital government open to state, territory, local and federal projects

  Monday July 29, 2019

  By The Mandarin

  • Australian Capital Territory

  The Digital Transformation Agency has opened nominations for this year's Australian Digital Government Awards, which have replaced the federal government's ICT awards that were last…

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  The shared power movement that is reimagining government in Australia and around the globe

  Monday July 29, 2019

  By Adrian Brown

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  From Australia to Illinois, there is a growing recognition that to achieve the best results, governments should recognise the limits of their knowledge and share…

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  What do we want our democracy to look like? Globalisation, means of income, and how we govern for the 21st Century

  Saturday July 27, 2019

  By Luca Belgiorno-Nettis

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  There can be many ways to renew a political structure. ‘Renovating Democracy’ grapples with concrete propositions for making 21st Century democracy fit-for-purpose. Without such input,…

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  Service design for public policymakers. The value and challenges of service design in government, from exploring to creating to delivering

  Thursday July 25, 2019

  By Angelica Quicksey

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  Angelica Quicksey explores the tools of service design, the opportunities and challenges such an approach offers in the public sector, as well as how we…

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