Our national governance is failing because the process for selecting political leaders is inadequate for the role that our system of government assigns to them.
The emergence of blockchain technology promises vast opportunities, including enhanced efficiency, speed, and data security. But should governments be harnessing the technology at this early stage?
Australian diplomats continue to strongly advocate free trade and multilateral diplomacy in response to Donald Trump’s revival of protectionism and the ensuing threat of trade wars, but that is only one side of the story.
If higher interest rates now will lower the risk of financial instability later, how much will they lower it, what are the benefits of so doing, and what are the costs?
Governments and bodies who create official statistics need to minimise the risks of them being abused by making them as clear as possible in the first place.
Problems with trust really get worse as you move to national governments, and get better as you move to more regional and local governments, says ANZSOG’s Dean and CEO, Ken Smith.
Field experiments were once rare in economics but now are much more common, thanks in part to the work of University of Chicago professor John List. The use of real-world observations in the dismal science instead of laboratory-style studies has been the focus of List’s work for years. He has…
Australia as a nation has never been richer. But it is now also more unequal than at any time since the early 1980s. This inequality takes many forms, not least between suburbs and neighbourhoods.
Through interactive visualisations, data is an avenue to educate, inform and influence a diverse audience. But to really succeed, it needs to communicate a compelling story to engage its users.
Today it's estimated that we take in about five times as much information as we did 25 years ago, and that we process as much data in a day as our 15th century ancestors would have in their lifetime.
Be open. Be honest. Be accountable. Be collaborative. This week the South Australian Premier Steven Marshall gave his first public address to the state's public sector, setting new expectations for ministerial-agency relations in the state.
