Why white married women are more likely to vote for conservative parties Career Advice The polls were wrong in the last US and Australian federal elections. Hillary Clinton was favoured to win at a margin of 85% to Donald
Might consciousness and free will be the aces up our sleeves when it comes to competing with robots? October 21, 2019 By Allan McCay Communications & Technology The rise of artificial intelligence has led to widespread concern about the role of humans in the workplaces of the future. Indeed, Israeli historian, futurist
Premium Columnists When you’ve got a case of policy-based evidence rather than evidence-based policy — and other service-delivery challenges October 21, 2019 By Verona Burgess Career Advice THE OBSERVER: With service delivery being the new black, middle-ranking public servants might be wondering whether being the meat in the sandwich is ever going
Participatory public governance: why we need it, what it is, and how to do it (in that order) October 18, 2019 By Pia Andrews Editors' Picks THE PIA REVIEW: PIA ANDREWS This is a Public Sector Pia Review — a series on better public sectors. For everything we do in public sectors, it is
Australia is facing a looming cyber emergency, and we don’t have the high-tech workforce to counter it October 17, 2019 By Greg Austin Communications & Technology Australia’s social scientists and the intelligence agencies have a new joint role in protecting the country, but may need a more tech-savvy workforce to get
The hidden lesson in ‘many hands make light work’ October 17, 2019 By Pia Andrews Editors' Picks THE PIA REVIEW: PIA ANDREWS This is a Public Sector Pia Review — a series on better public sectors. “Differentiation of labour and interdependence of society is reliant
Revealed: how Australian politicians would bridge the trust divide October 17, 2019 By Mark Evans Editors' Picks We hear a lot from citizens about the failings of Australian democracy and the need for reform. But how do politicians view the growing trust
Premium Expert briefings 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 October 17, 2019 By Bobby Duffy Career Advice Why we don’t know basic facts about the world around us? We can’t always resolve delusions with more facts alone, but we definitely shouldn’t give
There’s no airport border ‘crisis’, only management failure of the Home Affairs department October 14, 2019 By Regina Jefferies & Daniel Ghezelbash Editors' Picks In the past five years, more than 95,000 people who arrived by plane have lodged a claim for asylum in Australia, new statistics show. Labor’s
Three charts on: why congestion charging is fairer than you might think October 14, 2019 By Marion Terrill & James Ha Editors' Picks Congestion charging should be introduced in Australia’s largest cities, as Grattan Institute’s latest report shows. Our analysis also finds that the people who commute to
Tropic of Shakespeare: what studying Macbeth in Queensland could teach us about place and shipwrecks October 14, 2019 By Claire Hansen Culture When you imagine the setting for Macbeth, misty heaths, battlefields, and the brooding highlands spring to mind. Teaching the play in the midst of a
How to avoid change for change’s sake October 14, 2019 By Pia Andrews Editors' Picks THE PIA REVIEW: PIA ANDREWS This is a Public Sector Pia Review — a series on better public sectors. Change: the very word inspires quite different responses in
Designing better futures to better inform the present October 11, 2019 By Pia Andrews Editors' Picks THE PIA REVIEW: PIA ANDREWS This is a Public Sector Pia Review — a series on better public sectors. How often do you have a chance to think
A national drought policy should be an easy, bipartisan fix. So why has it taken so long to enact a new one? October 10, 2019 By Linda Botterill Editors' Picks In a country as dry as Australia, surely it is a no-brainer that we have in place a coordinated, national drought response that can be
