"One day a rooster, the next day a feather duster!"
By LAURIE PATTON | 16 February 2016
In an article in The Mandarin former Secretary of the Prime Minister’s Department, Professor Peter Shergold, is quoted urging public servants to adapt and to show courage.
Shergold is spot on. But before things can change we need to be willing to accept that mistakes are made, even by the best of people. Continue reading “Utopia — the professor, the public service, and the need for change”
By LAURIE PATTON | 25 November 2015
There’s no reason why Australia cannot be a leader in the Internet-driven, industrial era.
It is unusual for our two major political parties to find themselves joined at the hip on an issue of progressive national policy. But in the case of innovation, that’s just what’s happened. For a time, Labor had this one all to itself. Then, all of a sudden, a new prime minister made innovation a personal crusade. Both sides are now fighting to show who has the best innovation policy.
Continue reading “An innovation nation — the race to the top”