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https://t.co/rtQDZnhnrk @JDWilson08 @RyanGoss Yes agree - entrenchment only makes sense for electoral and constitutional matters, not substantive public policy questions like this. @RyanGoss No expert on Victorian constitutional arrangements, but surely manner and form wouldn’t extend to this? @B_Herscovitch Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne ➡️ 👍🏻 Good. @kateclaytn There’s a thesis in whether Neighbours is a net soft power asset or liability 🤔 The contempt with which Warner and Head are treating this Dawson bloke is everything I want and need - absolute 🥧s #AUSvENG @TheSydneyBlog They probably weren’t allowed, but just did it anyway. “these differences between the worlds that professors and policymakers inhabit are probably impossible to fully bridge. But that isn’t necessarily bad. We don’t want these worlds ever to get too cozy with each other, and a certain level of conflict…serves a useful purpose.” “While they begin with similar interests and values, it is important to remember a simple fact: Professors and policymakers do much different things, operating under distinct time horizons and facing dissimilar constraints and risk profiles.” “The population of people who become professors or enter foreign policy — or both — are not so different. In my experience, the median aspirant is a good person, filled with idealism, seeking to understand and hopefully improve a complex, often threatening world.” “The release of anodyne, cliché-ridden official national security documents are treated in Washington with the awe, speculation, and fevered anticipation that my 14-year-old daughter and her friends afforded to Taylor Swift’s recent album.” |
*cough* White Paper *cough* “I have met many impressive people who work at think tanks, though I confess I am not always entirely sure what they do: They don’t teach students, much of what they write is not meant for a long shelf-life, and the key players seem to spend a lot of time on Twitter arguing” ““I am the Senior Principal Deputy Assistant for Important Things, not to be confused with the mere Principal Deputy Director, though — and please keep this between us — I am in line to be the Uber Principal Senior Deputy. You can just call me the Tsar!”).” “Policymakers needed theoretical frames to make sense of a complex world but were loath to admit it. Scholars rarely made the necessary efforts to provide the kind of knowledge decision-makers needed.” Do yourself a favour and read this entertaining piece by Francis Gavin in @TXNatSecReview 👇🏻 |
Naturally it’s mostly 🇺🇸-centric, but some bits that could apply to some extent to 🇦🇺 too: |
https://t.co/c2G0hBopJj @stephendziedzic How will the Diplomatic Academy respond to this competition to the International Graduate Program? Ahead of @JasonClareMP's speech tonight, read @Duncanivison in The Policymaker @JMIPublicPolicy on how to fix higher education research funding 👇 |
https://t.co/ugK3JBeRXz "There isn’t a major challenge facing Australia and the world today that doesn’t require our humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, engineering, and health researchers to work together." |
Great to publish @Duncanivison today in The Policymaker |
https://t.co/ugK3JBeRXz As I’ve pointed out before, Labor’s trade ministers have avoided major policy statements relative to Albanese, Wong, Marles and other assistant ministers. |
This is a major shift from the Morrison government where Tehan and Birmingham were more prominent. |
https://t.co/wn6mszd6b6 3/ This rather evocative metaphor: “Australia is not an 800-pound gorilla, which means we cannot risk a return to the “law of the jungle” should the WTO be allowed to wither.” |
How I’m now imagining Australia in trade negotiations 👇🏻 https://t.co/I7tHLJnbQj So, we’re seeing trade policy being explicitly linked with Labor’s social and economic policy principles. 2/ “We believe strongly that the benefits of trade must be shared among the community. |
Trade must be a driver of inclusive economic growth and greater economic wellbeing for all Australians…fairness and equality should be our guiding stars. Trade is no different.” “It is also bad for national resilience, for our capacity to solve national problems and engage in global supply chains. |
That’s why open trade must also be paired with good economic, industry and social policy.” |
So, we’re seeing explicit links with industrial and social policy 1/ “Open trade is a net positive for our society. |
But there are winners and losers in international trade. Australia’s manufacturing sector has declined rapidly – now accounting for less than 7 per cent of GDP. |
That’s bad for jobs in our regions and suburbs.” It only took 178 days(!) (since the election), but we finally have a major speech from the Trade Minister Don Farrell. |
3 key takeaways: |
https://t.co/TETBu1cWiW NSW Treasurer @Matt_KeanMP delivers the keynote address for @JMIPublicPolicy Policy Challenge Grant Awards https://t.co/jjZJlWxygV My colleagues @SimonaTomevska & @GhazaviVD led the development of this grants program - its success is a great credit to them both 🤗 In its inaugural year, the @JMIPublicPolicy Policy Challenge Grant is a unique grants program focused on applied public policy research with government. |
https://t.co/EAqBC2yAMy #publicpolicy ED Research & Policy @GhazaviVD announcing the winners of the 2022 @JMIPublicPolicy Policy Challenge Grant from @westernsydneyu @UTSEngage @Sydney_Uni https://t.co/lDfa0kLpPf "We won’t be prepared for the next pandemic if we don’t learn from the current one." |
Great to publish this sharp piece by @westernsydneyu Chancellor and @JMIPublicPolicy Chair Peter Shergold on what Australia can learn from its COVID pandemic experience. @oliverpeterson Meanwhile, Samoa beats England in RL… Economic focus not necessarily bad option - but it's clearly a step down from the broader foreign and strategic policy focus originally envisioned, and that @graham_euan discussed well here: https://t.co/IRHHx4MM2e One cannot help but speculate about why the ambition and remit of this role has receded since the May election. |
Perhaps the practical realities of (a) their role vis-a-vis DFAT and (b) finding the right person for a broader foreign policy function proved too difficult? A low key press release late on Saturday afternoon to announce the SE Asia Envoy role, now scoped down to focus on trade and business engagement. |
🤔 12/10 thread this 👇🏻 Good to see this is a four day game 🏏 “The best allies are the ones who come up with good ideas and then convince us that they were ours to begin with” - @HalBrands |
Great event at @USSC @Sydney_Uni hosted by @GoranaGrgic on the future of 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 🇦🇺 strategy https://t.co/ITdRjAlD8V @danbrettig @DanielCherny He’s got more chance of success than the very known quantity of Marcus Harris. Another meaningless and contextless bilateral limited overs series. Here’s a thought: play more test cricket 🏏 As the world turns its focus to Egypt for #COP27, read @AmandaTatts from @SydneyPolicyLab on why putting people and communities at the centre of policymaking is vital 👇🏻 via The Policymaker @JMIPublicPolicy @stephendziedzic @dfat $1000 is a lot when you’re on an APS 3.2 salary and you’re paying $400/week for a room in a Kingston Foreshore sharehouse 😅 Looking forward to reading this! Hoping🤞🏻and praying 🙏🏻 for a #INDvPAK 🇮🇳 🇵🇰 final #INDvsZIM #T20WorldCup Amen 🙏🏻 @mattnewman_au There’ll be NIMBYs licking their lips at the prospect of scuttling this 😋 @citowicki @WilliamAStoltz Yep, this is a huge vulnerability. Many states simply do not see themselves as national security actors. @CricketVicCEO @cricketvictoria No, the metric was “great note”, implying “greatness”. |
The measure of a state system is how many national players it produces, not their final destination. |
Put hair splitting aside, the reality is that Victoria simply does not pull its weight nationally, esp compared to NSW @CricketVicCEO @cricketvictoria This is the *bare minimum* for what a state the size of Victoria should be contributing to the national team. |
Moreover, 20 tests is hardly the mark of greatness. |
Rogers was a NSW product. Wade is a Tasmanian product. |
“Unlucky” and “should pass” counts for nothing. Of course, the elephant in the room here is @cricketvictoria's relative under contribution to Australian Cricket, despite having a similar population to NSW. Warne aside, Victoria has not produced a Test Cricketer of any great note in the last three decades... NSW has long been the nursery of Australian Cricket, reflecting its size, the quality of Sydney Grade Cricket, and (perhaps most importantly) the relative absence of afl tentacles in the state. https://t.co/rMrSZB9qr8 Great read here from @plalor about the importance of a strong NSW to a strong Australia, building on research from @timwig & @sszy. |
https://t.co/YxoRm6xhF2 “I can’t answer this crap” @wasimakramlive 👏🏻 This was a lynching. And it should be regarded as nothing less. White Australian violence must end. ✨ just a baby ✨ The beginning of the end. Cricket will cannibalise itself with inauthenticity if it goes down this path. 🇮🇪🤝🇦🇺 @AusEmbIre @IrelandSydney #ENGvIRE @danbrettig Have you heard anything about objections to sponsorship from betting companies @danbrettig? Given their close alignment with sport in particular as a marketing vehicle, that could be a tougher one for players to push back on? Grim. Finch's eyes have been gone for 2+ year now, time for him to shuffle on. But the team isn't brave enough to make the right call to drop him, make Warner captain, and open with Cam Green. @wmdglasgow You can actually trace the decline in 🇦🇺-🇨🇳 relations to Howard forcing the Premier to walk around Lake Burley Griffin. @freyabliss You can take the boy/girl out of PLB, but you can’t take love of the reading pack out of the boy/girl. Australia has world-leading research on recycling and green manufacturing. Here’s how the right policy settings can harness it. |
Great new article by @VeenaSahajwalla @UNSW on The Policymaker @JMIPublicPolicy |
https://t.co/oyKxjqrRyq @freyabliss @AusHCSols @taz_bain PLB represent ✊ Finch and Stoinis have to be dropped - they’re embarrassingly far off the pace. If Maxwell doesn’t perform here, he needs to go too. Bring in Smith and Green ASAP. |
#t20worldcup #AUSvNZ @mhar4 @AFP Whatever it is that’s going on here, which we will probably never know for sure, it’s profoundly awkward. @AliciaMollaun I, for one, welcome our future intellectual overlord: Dr Dr Mollaun PhD PhD @AliciaMollaun When’s the second PhD happening??? Get your primer on all things wellbeing budget from @AliciaMollaun before next Tuesday’s #budget 👇🏻 @JacobBerah A little part of me died inside imagining the 5 layers of approval these weasel words went through to be approved, each one adding more words of obfuscation all the while bleeding meaning and colour. If you want to write for The Policymaker @JMIPublicPolicy, please feel free to reach out ☺️ |
You can also see our submission guidelines here https://t.co/w77G8tX5E4 Really pleased to publish this great piece on The Policymaker on how #data can be used to combat #racism. |
Read the original research here https://t.co/nMLa5gMCtV @Deakin The bottom line: now is the time to speak up before it gets harder to do so. “By avoiding the topic now, Australia sets a difficult precedent, making it harder to speak and act in the future without causing major, even irreparable, damage to the bilateral relationship.” As I wrote for @Diplomat_APAC back in April: “In terms of Australia and India ties, however, silence on human rights in this growth phase of the relationship could undermine its long-term success.” |
https://t.co/3FdDJwZXEt All bases covered on the 🇦🇺-🇮🇳 bilateral relationship here: Quad, trade, diplomatic footprint, 🇺🇦&🇷🇺, development - but one yawning gap remains: #humanrights |
While this sensitive issue might be raised behind the scenes, disappointing it’s not seen here. |
https://t.co/TZcv2Oqfvp This series is the most meaningless, contextless collection of games - no surprise crowds are at a low ebb. "The culture is still searching for a modern masculine ideal. It is not instilling in many boys the nurturing and emotional skills that are so desperately important today." |
This is very good from @nytdavidbrooks via @nytimes |
https://t.co/BzB89DEXnw @MConleytyler Beats my makeshift desk for the day 😎 https://t.co/oGZJHNMyUM @kateclaytn Hello 👋 @AusEmbIre @AusHouseLondon @AliciaMollaun You mean, you didn’t like the interior design of RG Casey? 🥲😯 @kateclaytn Keen to see an Australian embassy promote Heartbreak High soon too 🤪 @ProfTimStephens @RodgerShanahan This took me back to LAWS1023 circa 2014 🤔 @JacobBerah Well, culturally speaking, yes. @JacobBerah And have you ever heard of a little spot called Bondi Beach? Lived in Stanmore for 13 years and I still don’t know what the correct opinion is. Last I heard the ideal combo is Silva’s chips 🍟 with Frango’s chicken 🍗 @JacobBerah yeh but we got rugba loigue tho 🤷🏼♂️ iykyk English tabloid headline July 2023: “Clever Broad outsmarts lazy Warner with smart play to return the Ashes to their rightful home.” |
The headlines write themselves. If @StuartBroad8 mankaded @davidwarner31 on day 5 of the 5th test in 2023 at The Oval to win #TheAshes 3-2, would the English reaction be the same as it has been to Deepti Sharma and India? Stanmore represent 💪✊ Good read here from @AsiaPacific4D colleagues @Hbwrathall and @MConleytyler on changes to Australia's development policy in the Pacific, especially around climate change. via @AIIANational |
https://t.co/hcjWtLuneh As I wrote here, effective ambassadors can come from many backgrounds - but what’s important is that Australians have confidence that the right person has been selected. |
Also important for Australian credibility that appointments are merit-based. |
https://t.co/kx9vTjWZrr “A DFAT recruitment process will be carried out to appoint experienced public servants as heads of mission in Singapore, New Delhi, Tokyo and at the United Nations in New York.” |
An interesting reference to “process” here, highlighting the importance of transparency & confidence. @AngusBlackman Amen brother Moreover, there are models to select a Head of State that can allay voters’ concerns: |
- HoS cannot be an ex-politician or party member |
- HoS must be elected by a 2/3 majority of a joint sitting of both federal houses |
- HoS serves for a non-renewable 5-year term |
Simple! Popularity is not the best way to decide a model for a republic. |
A Head of State with a national electoral mandate, separate to that held by the PM and cabinet by commanding a majority in the House of Reps, introduces a dangerous wildcard into our constitutional & politics “He defended appointing a NSW judge when no South Australian or Tasmanian jurist has been appointed to the High Court in its 120-year-history.” |
The implicit criticism of a lack of “federal balance” on the High Court is misguided. https://t.co/XjJuUlkcKx Instead, it was “New Dealers” with domestic policy experience pre-war, embedded in the occupying American army, who had the vision and zeal to drive reform. |
Sometimes too much regard for context can blind you to the need for change. Education is a tool of statecraft 📚🏫👩🎓🧑🎓 *rugby league Looking forward to speaking today at the @AseanUnsw Conference. I'll be building on @AsiaPacific4D's work on Australia being a partner for Southeast Asia in climate leadership 🇦🇺🇻🇳🇮🇩🇧🇳🇲🇾🇸🇬🇱🇦🇹🇭🇰🇭🇵🇭🇲🇲 |
https://t.co/Sx24DVZPXj https://t.co/3kmYit2xaq @Junotane lol @Junotane Who are “the wrong people”? At risk of flogging a horse that is dead, cremated and mourned, these are great jobs doing important work - but, there’s *no reason* why they need to be Canberra only! ONI could easily have offices across Australia to attract a bigger, more diverse pool of talent. @stephendziedzic The thing this analysis misses is that black labradors are actually staunch republicans - at least that's what Nina says: https://t.co/1CGL1QT6MP @danbrettig Who on earth thought it was a good idea to hold this game in Melbourne in the midst of afl hysteria? North Sydney Oval on Sunday would be 👌🏻 @malcyjorgy @AusRepublic Yes, it’s only getting harder to tolerate these small but significant indignities. That GSTK can still be sung at APH but there be no First Nations voice in 2022 is deplorable. This reflects my broader recommendations here for @LowyInstitute about opening up Head of Mission appointments to the general public in order to boost the transparency of the selection process and attract more high calibre candidates. |
https://t.co/kx9vTjWZrr A very positive development to see an Ambassador for First Nations People come into fruition, backed by a dedicated staff within @dfat. |
It is especially pleasing to see that selection will be opened up to people outside government. @AsiaPacific4D |
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