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Lindsay Tanner’s Taskforce 2.0 are getting down to the hard yards of working through how to democratically engage Australia’s public in the cause of more open government. In the way of all collective activity I can imagine they will have a few teething
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Let me be honest – I titled this blog ‘Digital Democracy ” not because I wanted to discuss that subject particularly but rather to get more attention on the web through the search engines. My digital media friends have a few tricks. Such is the reality
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Yesterday’s announcement by Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner and Special Minister of State, Senator Joe Ludwig, of a taskforce to investigate how the Australian Government can use new ‘Web 2.0’ approaches to expand the uses of Commonwealth information
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There are times when it may seem that a glacier moves faster than change in the public service. I declare an interest – I spent six years in the Federal Department of Finance in the late 80s and early 1990s at a time when ‘significant’ changes were made
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Earlier today (Monday May 25) the Senate began committee investigations into the 2009-2010 Federal Budget. The Budget Estimates hearings will take place all of this week (including if necessary Friday) and all of next week (again including Friday if necessary).
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"Oh what a tangled web we weave, when we first practice to deceive!." I only ever knew this quote as one of my father's 'words of wisdom'. I have since learnt that it is credited to the great Scottish author and novelist Sir Walter Scott. While
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