Premium The Select Committee What do you wish you had learned sooner? Career Advice When it comes to being in and/or dealing with the public sector over many years, what is the one thing you wished you had learned sooner?
Premium The Select Committee When a promotion is given but doesn’t seem warranted – The Select Committee July 15, 2021 By Chris Johnson Editors' Picks What does it do to the effectiveness of an organisation, including within the public sector, when someone is promoted after making a huge and costly mistake?
Premium The Select Committee When your boss has overruled you, what does that mean for the relationship? – The Select Committee April 20, 2021 By Chris Johnson Australian Capital Territory When you are overruled by a superior (either a more senior public sector leader or a government minister) how can you use that experience to create a stronger working relationship between you both?
Australia seeing a ‘creep’ in political public service appointments, ex deputy secretary warns November 18, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Federal Stephen Bartos, Lucy Turnbull and Geoff Gallop discussed the key events and issues that have defined 2020 for the final Mandarin Talks event for the year.
Premium Insights and analysis Could Trump’s America come to Australia’s public sector? November 16, 2020 By Chris Johnson Editors' Picks While there has never been anything like a Trump in Australian politics, some parallels can be drawn where elected officials here have attempted to politicise public sector administrators.
Premium The Select Committee The first meeting – The Select Committee October 21, 2020 By Chris Johnson Editors' Picks You are meeting with your minister for the first time. How do you prepare for the interview and what do you say and do once there?
Premium The Select Committee Define the public interest – The Select Committee September 1, 2020 By Chris Johnson Editors' Picks This instalment of The Select Committee includes comment from our whole brains trust – the entire nine-member panel. And while we were acutely aware of the deceptive difficulty of the task, they have all come through with some insightful comments.
Premium The Select Committee Is going into public policy a good career? – The Select Committee August 18, 2020 By Chris Johnson Editors' Picks Would you advise one of your children, relatives or close friends to go into public policy? If so, why? If not, why not?
Premium The Select Committee Reshaping the nature of federation – The Select Committee July 7, 2020 By Chris Johnson Editors' Picks Has the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic shown that the time has come to reshape the nature of federation and manage bigger national issues in a cooperative way between the federal and state/territory governments?
The nine policy experts answering the burning questions facing public sector leaders June 16, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins News With nine members from a range of backgrounds, including Lucy Turnbull, Geoff Gallop, and Richard Bolt, the Select Committee provides comment and insight into key public sector and policy issues.
Premium The Select Committee Introducing The Select Committee – The Mandarin Brains Trust June 11, 2020 By Chris Johnson Editors' Picks The Mandarin has asked nine highly skilled high achievers to form a panel we are calling The Select Committee. These people are huge contributors to society, being involved in public policy at the highest levels. Welcome to The Select Committee – The Mandarin Brains Trust.
Premium Insights and analysis Geoff Gallop on learning from how Australia advanced its thinking on First Peoples in the past, and can maybe learn how to do reform again September 9, 2019 By Geoff Gallop Editors' Picks As Australia and the First peoples contemplate treaty and constitutional recognition, there must an acceptance that there are two major players in this, the First Peoples and the Australian electorate. A facilitated dialogue, like a mini-public may have the best likelihood of people and ideas coming together in the search for the best outcome.
An ode to the public library, the gateway to an educated society August 5, 2019 By Geoff Gallop Community & Social Public libraries the world over are known as places for all people to access information, knowledge, and creative inspiration; and to escape from mundane reality by diving down a rabbit hole of soul-reaching words. Libraries are an important bulwark against those who see beliefs and the feelings attached to them as enough and not requiring critical examination, particularly when being applied in the real world. Here is an ode to public libraries.
Premium Expert briefings Effective public servants need nuanced understanding of politics, what drives their minister and government. Geoff Gallop offers eleven theses on Australian politics in practice July 13, 2019 By Geoff Gallop Editors' Picks Geoff Gallop is a former premier of Western Australia. Your minister cannot avoid dealing with the politics, so you should understand the ideas behind it, and the policy compromises they must make to secure alliances.
Geoff Gallop on corruption: politics is the problem, but it's also the solution November 30, 2018 By Stephen Easton Features The high risk of political corruption is the main reason for special ICAC-style oversight, but governments must be allowed to govern, says former WA Premier Geoff Gallop. Doing so in the public interest, he argues, is a lot more complex than it sounds.
