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Gains in restoring powers to states

Economics & Deregulation and Governance & Service Provision | Julie Novak
Canberra Times 27th November, 2008

This weekend sees yet another round of executive federalism at work, with Kevin Rudd to meet premiers and chief ministers on funding issues. Since...

Machine culture rotten to core

Work Reform and Productivity Unit The Australian 21st November, 2008

Is the NSW Government totally dysfunctional or is it just suffering from a series of disconnected unfortunate events? The list of events is long...

NZ gets its ACT together

Governance & Service Provision | John Roskam
The Australian Financial Review 14th November, 2008

New Zealand's electoral system might be completely incomprehensible, but it does have some benefits. At the election last weekend, the ACT party,...

Politics and the top cop

Nanny State | Chris Berg
The Age 9th November, 2008

Being the Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police sounds like a terrible job. In the aftermath of Christine Nixon's announcement to step down as...

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