Premium Insights and analysis Peter Doherty on being an influencer during a plague Federal He’s the octogenarian Nobel prize winner speaking common sense and science to a country in crisis, and the namesake of a building that houses a
Modelling plots the start of pandemic to November, 2019 June 28, 2021 By Melissa Coade Federal New computer modelling has pinpointed November 17, 2019 as the likely start date of the first human case of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), two weeks earlier than
Study supports ‘circuit-breaker’ lockdown response to COVID-19 outbreaks June 7, 2021 By Melissa Coade Economy & Industry A public health and economic study that evaluated scenarios from Australia’s ‘first wave’ of COVID-19 last year, has found that a ‘go hard, go early’
World’s richest nations pledge to end investment in overseas coal projects May 25, 2021 By Melissa Coade Energy & Environment A commitment has been reached among the UK, the US, the EU, France, Italy, Germany and Canada at a meeting of the G7 Environment and
APS suffers from ‘command and control’ dynamic and outsourcing, expert says May 10, 2021 By Melissa Coade Australian Capital Territory The gradual flow of traditional public service work to consultants has eroded skills and expertise within government departments and agencies, ANU’s Professor Glyn Davis says,
Premium Insights and analysis ‘Adversarial’ rhetoric towards China’s dominance reflects mood within national security circles April 30, 2021 By Melissa Coade Defence A security analyst tells The Mandarin why we should be concerned about Australia’s national security position, especially when it comes to Beijing. International security expert
The Pezzullo factor: courting controversy and climbing high April 28, 2021 By Melissa Coade Defence The back story on how mandarin Michael Pezzullo, a history-obsessed scholar, made his way to the top of the national security food chain in Canberra.
Agencies see their data put to the test at GovHack September 4, 2019 By Shannon Jenkins Communications & Technology This weekend, thousands of thinkers and creators from across Australia and New Zealand will solve public problems using open government data in the annual GovHack
ANZSOG Learning from failure and success March 19, 2019 By Maria Katsonis Research Series Evaluation of policies and programs together with a culture which learns from success and failure is pivotal in producing evidence for effective policy development and
