The Mandarin has compiled some of the best and worst examples of health communication, either from or between government agencies, throughout the pandemic.
High levels of control, low personal freedom and little government transparency are government attributes that few Australians would support. Increasing trust is important, but not every path to higher trust is of equal value, write Sean Innis and Ryan Young.
With the success of Taiwan’s response to the coronavirus outbreak being praised around the world, The Mandarin has received a briefing presentation from the Taiwanese Government on how it swiftly made and effectively enacted sound public policy decisions.
The Thodey Review proposed solutions to help address the profound challenges of making and implementing outcomes-based policy in an extremely complex world. Gordon de Brouwer discusses the priorities the review identified for the APS.
The Centre of Research Excellence in Disability and Health has five relatively straightforward recommendations for equipping the healthcare system to rapidly scale up the healthcare sector’s capacity to care for people with a disability.
The secret of internet speed success in NZ is that both sides of politics have always agreed on the need for a state-of-the-art broadband network. Australia needs a bipartisan rescue plan for the dud NBN. And we need one now.
It’s naïve to point to better viral control and say it’s because of technology alone. Nevertheless, a comparison the coronavirus and SARS outbreaks dramatically highlights how the scientific world has changed, for the better, in the past two decades.
From WWII to cyclones to the coronavirus pandemic currently being experienced, Australia's parliamentarians have shown the willingness and sense to work together to see the nation through the serious challenges of sociopolitical and climate history.
Does the minister have enough information to make a decision? Have you thought about how to motivate your target audience? Here are three policy advice checklists to consider before handing over your brief.
The government can claim all it likes that this stimulus is only possible because they’ve restored the economy to strength, but their claim doesn’t wash, writes Wayne Swan.
In a matter of weeks, coronavirus has changed how students are educated around the world. Those changes give us a glimpse at how education could change for the better — and the worse — in the long term.
Values-based leadership is the way to cut through personality politics and have political insiders start fixing their own system by repairing Australia’s future-making system, writes Chloë Spackman.
For the voice of NDIS participants to be heard, we need to be mindful of having a new National Disability Strategy and National Disability Data Asset that are fit-for-purpose and mindful of human rights considerations.
Despite there being more women (59%) than men in the Australian Public Service, women are still significantly underrepresented at nearly all levels of government — from parliament down.
Female leaders can establish strong networks — and they win greater influence and more-senior positions as a result. What are they doing differently? Harvard Business Review interviewed Ford Motor Company's Julie Lodge-Jarrett to learn her networking techniques.
