For some time now we’ve been ‘proving up’ citizens’ juries as a means of consulting the people, but generally within the context of governments being in charge. As a result they’ve been mostly relatively innocuous.
Beginning tomorrow.
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I’d like to write up some thoughts regarding Shared Value some time, but I’ve not had the time and there’s a fair few things in front of it in the queue.
So in case anyone’s interested here’s quite a good panel session on the subject with
Pru Bennett / Managing Director and Head of Investment Stewardship, Asia Pacific, BlackRock
Elizabeth Bryan AM / Chairman, IAG
Ken Henry AC / Chair, NAB
I saw this post by previous Troppo regular Richard 塚正, the Troppo author previously known as Richard Green and tweeted a suggestion that he republish it here.
I posted the piece over the fold some time ago (early January) but the fact that the federal Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters is about to publish its report into the ongoing legal and constitutional debacle surrounding the Parliamentary disqualification in Constitution
The media debate about last Monday’s NT Budget sure could do with some context and perspective. The Australian’s Amos Aikman was, however, an honourable exception:
In all ways that we measure these things, physical violence has reduced in Western countries in the last 70 years, particularly mainland Western Europe. What about psychological violence though?
