Democrats leader Lyn Allison (a participant in the 2020 summit’s Sustainability stream) has written a scathing letter about the 2020 summit.
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Democrats leader Lyn Allison (a participant in the 2020 summit’s Sustainability stream) has written a scathing letter about the 2020 summit.
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A recommendation from the Productivity (Education, Skills, Training, Science and Innovation) group at the 2020 summit, which has received some publicity is:
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What we are looking for from this Summit are new directions for our nation’s future. And if we succeed, what we are looking for is also new insights into how we can govern Australia, a new way of governing our nation. Because the old way of governing has long been creaking and groaning. Often a triumph of the short term over the long term. Often a triumph of the trivial over the substantial. Often a triumph of the partisan over the positive. Read more »
I will also be taking a proposal along to the Summit for discussion.
K Rudd at the Sydney Institute 16 April
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The problem with the republic debate was that there used to be two debates rolled into one. On the one hand there was the debate we always heard about, the one within the political class and their supporters over the best way for them to be represented here and overseas. While they would no doubt like to stand on their own two feet, they have had too little authority to do so and so have had to cling to a Monarchy on the other side of the world. Read more »
Given it was written by a political reporter who has spent so long cheering the ALP, Alan Ramsay's latest article shows a remarkable naivety of how that party works and, indeed, of politics in general. His warning that Rudd had better watch himself against the factions was ironically prompted by the death of someone who did his fair share of destroying their power.
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