Premium Insights and analysis Election 2022: Priority of services demanded of the public service Defence Defence waste is one of the great challenges of government and none in recent memory has been able to solve it, or in some cases,…
Premium Insights and analysis What’s the point of advisory bodies if they’re ignored? Monday April 11, 2022 By Stephen Bartos Editors' Picks Should a government maintain an advisory body if it does not want to take advice from it? The pre-election budget conspicuously failed to take into…
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Premium Insights and analysis No harm in giving away other people’s money, to ‘quote’ Machiavelli Thursday October 28, 2021 By Tom Ravlic Machiavelli may as well have been talking about the way in which the funds of taxpayers have been used by political players in Australia.
