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Finding a fair and productive level of inequality: A review of Battlers and Billionaires by Andrew Leigh

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Pearls and Irritations

Andrew Podger

Why the Productivity Commission is kidding itself on childcare

A more robust analysis by the commission might have yielded different priorities or recommendations for childcare. The Productivity Commission’s...

05.12.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

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COVID 19 Response Inquiry Report: A comprehensive review despite its limited terms of reference

My recent review of the book, Australia’s Pandemic Exceptionalism, by Steven Hamilton and Richard Holden (H&H) highlighted its ‘convincing, frank...

26.11.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

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Health Department: Listen to these lessons from our COVID 19 experience

A review of Steven Hamilton and Richard Holden, Australia’s Pandemic Exceptionalism: How we crushed the curve but lost the race, UNSW Press I...

24.11.2024 10

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‘Fairness and balance’ in P&I reporting on the Middle East

Discussion about the Middle East is difficult. Conflicting views are deeply held and even reasonable people struggle to speak, and to listen,...

18.11.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

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The APSC’s Robodebt code of conduct inquiry: too little, too late and not convincing

Those thousands of Australians so terribly damaged by Robodebt are unlikely to be satisfied by the Robodebt Centralised Code of Conduct Inquiry Report...

23.09.2024 10

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NSW dilutes protection against politicisation

NSW, like Victoria before it, is demonstrating once again that the dangers of politicisation do not lie with just one side of politics. NSW, like...

01.09.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

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APS integrity reforms could have a big impact

There is reason to believe that genuine integrity reform – even just insistence on obeying the law – would have a big impact. Not just on the...

01.08.2024 6

Pearls and Irritations

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A serious reform package that should attract wide support

The proposals set out in the discussion paper released last week are intended to offer a coherent and comprehensive package to improve the efficiency,...

10.07.2024 8

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Restoring integrity to the Australian Public Service

The purpose of this paper is to help promote discussion about the ways in which the efficiency, effectiveness and capability of the Australian Public...

05.07.2024 10

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Pezzullo and Campbell demonstrate the need to review the APS values

Mike Pezzullo’s mea culpa should convince no-one that he understands the seriousness of his breaches of the Code of Conduct or the responsibilities...

03.05.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

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Changing mindsets: From wealth creation to delivering retirement incomes

Australia’s superannuation system is based upon defined contributions, largely because that avoids the main weakness of many overseas systems based...

17.03.2024 20

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Accountability demands putting it in writing

The APS Commissioner, Gordon de Brouwer, included some surprising comments when speaking at The Mandarin’s ‘Rebuilding Trust and Integrity in the...

02.03.2024 10

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Albanese’s proposal doesn’t fix bracket creep for low income earners

The Albanese Government’s proposed change to the Stage 3 tax cuts is clearly a broken promise; or, put another way, where was the political courage...

06.02.2024 10

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Holding senior public servants to account

A central question the Joint Committee on Public Accountability and Audit is pursuing in its inquiry into probity and ethics in the Commonwealth...

23.12.2023 10

Pearls and Irritations

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Politicalisation is a bipartisan problem: Victoria’s Labor Government joins the club

The most disappointing part of the Victorian Ombudsman’s report on alleged politicisation of the public sector is the ‘nothing to see here’...

13.12.2023 20

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