How is it that governments can sometimes initiate great public inquiries into major policy questions with submissions being made public – even on the internet – and interim and final reports again being cast into the public arena for intemperate journalists and ill-tempered Opposition members to trawl their way through for their argumentative ammunition? Continue reading “Secrecy is governments’ enemy”
Month: March 2009
Wither newspapers in internet world
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer with a circulation similar to that of The Australian or the Adelaide Advertiser ceased publication this week. It is now a purely on-line publication.
Do not panic. It is not totally the case of the internet swallowing paper. There is another morning paper in Seattle, population 600,000, which will pick up the slack. Continue reading “Wither newspapers in internet world”
Easy to join the class we failed
Twelve years ago The Daily Telegraph ran a Page one article under a banner headline: “The class we failed”. Under it was class photo Mount Druitt’s Year 12, no member of which achieved a tertiary entrance score above 50. Continue reading “Easy to join the class we failed”
ACT’s power-ful new policy
This week the ACT settled on its feed-in electricity tariff for home-generated solar power. It is a beachhead in public policy.
Much will depend on the reaction of electricity consumers and therein lies its innovation. Continue reading “ACT’s power-ful new policy”
Secrecy not in governments’ interests
How is it that governments can sometimes initiate great public inquiries into major policy questions with submissions being made public – even on the internet – and interim and final reports again being cast into the public arena for intemperate journalists and ill-tempered Opposition members to trawl their way through for their argumentative ammunition? Continue reading “Secrecy not in governments’ interests”