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• Introduction: So what’s this Topic 9 thing?

  01 April 2008 in Announcements

  Hi, I’m Stilgherrian. You may know me from my personal website or my recent writing in Crikey. Or you may know me from my previous media life in Adelaide. You may know me…

• Australia 2020 Summit Initial Report

  20 April 2008 in Ideas

  The Australia 2020 Summit is over, and the Initial Report is online. Here’s what it has to say about Governance. My comments will come in due course.

  Ambition

  The participants of the Australian Governance stream set…

• I missed the media accreditation deadline

  14 April 2008 in Process

  I suspect I’m like many people in spending Monday morning mapping out the week ahead. I’m therefore disappointed to discover that applications for media accreditation for the Australia 2020 Summit have already closed.

  Applications must…

• My submission for Australia 2020’s economy topic

  10 April 2008 in Submissions

  The Australia 2020 Summit framework has lumped discussions of our internet and broadband infrastructure in with “the economy”. Since I’m supposedly a geek of some sort, I felt compelled to write a submission for thi…

• My submission for Australia 2020’s governance topic

  10 April 2008 in Submissions

  Some famous bloke once apologised for writing a long letter because he didn’t have time to write a short one. That’s how I felt yesterday while writing a submission for the Australia 2020 Summit.

  For variou…