CLIMATE CHANGE: Renewable energy as stimulus - - Tax & Accounting in the Carbon Economy - - A CARBON ECONOMY - - 2009 COPUS Year of Science - - Industrial Environmental Management and Cleaner Production for Sustainable Development - - Responding to climate change means changing operations from the inside out - - Enabling Life: the big decision - - Capturing Green Innovation - - Green Paper sends no signal for change - - Dealing with the Datacentre power usage - - Emissions Trading in the age of IT, how will it affect your business? - - Kill the Car or Kill Us - - Advancing Alternative Energies by Providing Incentives to Traditional Power Producers - - A New Approach to Capitalism in the 21st Century - - Videoconferencing is Green - - Are economic increase and environmental sustainability incompatible? - - Environmental Capitalism - - Requiem for my Mazda - - The climate Budget betrayal - - A comprehensive national feed-in law - - Stuck in the coal age, when the solar century has already begun - - Greenhouse Challenge: Can IT deliver? - - The true nature of the Environment - - Water wise, Desalination wise - - Salute to the worker, who works for the"Green" cause - - Don't forget Earth Hour!... 

CHILDCARE: A National Pre-School Program - - Canada Last: Insult to 3rd World Kids - - Maternity "Leave" - - Fund the Child: Canadian Activism - - International Choice in Childcare - - Room for Public & Private Providers - - Making Childcare Choices Real - - Childcare at the Crossroads - - Who pays for parenthood? - - Childcare in crisis - did anyone not know? - - Childcare in Crisis?

HOUSING:  Great News for Home Buyers and the Economy - - House Price Gamblers Support Grant: Shockingly bad news for future generations and the economy - - Opportunities in existing suburbs - - A tax for everything...

GOVERNMENT REGULATION: Story of ABC's books the stuff of Hollywood movies - - Red Tape "Threat to Growth"? - - The 'Second Track' Process: a Civil Solution - - Adding cost through the duplication of regulation - - Why I learned to love regulation - - An Image Makeover for Regulation - - A Fairer Approach to Risk Equalisation - - The lesson history affords us when looking at regulation - - Regulations, Hammers & Nails: Not Just Reform or Reduction, but Reframing the Reasons - - Regulating for Better Infrastructure - - What governments should do - - How Regulators Can Learn From Business - - Regulation as a Business Opportunity - - If you can't beat them... - - The path to prosperity through deregulation - - Could business look at new commercial opportunities created by regulation? -- Nick Mallory explains why less is more... 

EDUCATION: Is this in the exam? - - A computer science degree…… or six months experience? - - Reflections on an Exchange Year - - Education and Skills - - Education begins on the first day, in your home, on your knee - - Parting Seas for guest workers unlikely - - Responding to the skills shortage - - Combating the skills shortage means rebuilding from within - - Indigenous renaissance - - Asian Studies and the Myth That One Size Fits All - - The Productivity Agenda (Australia 2020) - - Brief commentary for consideration by the 2020 Summit by Prof Kerry Cox - - HECS and Stopping the Brain Drain...

LANGUAGES: Seeing Beyond the Words in Language

AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY: Australia Day by any other name - - Religion & Euthanasia - - Advance Australia, Yeah! - - More than just lip-service - - Graffiti is an urban scourge - - The Hot Tip - - Advance Australia meh... - - National Service Act 2008? - - Flaws with Centrelink and the policies relating to studying single parents - - Tackling the pay differential - - Reflections on time in Cape York - - The importance of numbers - - Overlooking Facts on Fact-Finding Missions - - Who would you trust with the money? A response to Kevin Fong and Rachel Siewert - - Indigenous renaissance - - Closing the Gap Between Rudd's rhetoric on Indigenous Australians and budget commitments - - By the People for the People - - What do you really know? - - The Gruen Transfer - - The shifting expectations of corporate etiquette - - Measuring Success - - It's who they are not what they are that makes great Australians really great - - Define a "Working Family"? - - A "Business" approach to the business of Social Inclusion - - Greg Eatock calls on Government to rethink the NT intervention - - Civilised society - - Populate and perish - - A whole new approach to Women’s business - - Alison Gordon defends the beautiful city of Sydney - - Wai, Kulila-ya! - - Lost Generations - - A mandate from "the Australian people"? - - Open spaces or open slather? - - Some things never change - - The price of technology: manners anyone? - - Death has no appeal* - - The Demise of Accountability - - Facing Up to Reality...

TALK OPENLY: Question Time for Jodie Campbell MP, Federal Member for Bass - - Question Time for Patrick Secker MP, Federal Member for Barker - - Question Time for Chris Pearce MP, Member for Aston - - Tony Abbott on Health Care Agreements - - Exclusive interview with Tony Abbott...  

THE ARTS: Grey matter - - Spinning Plates... 

DEMOCRACY: Saturday: Sausage Sizzles Sweep NSW  - - The YouTube election that wasn't - - Politics & Technology (& blogging) conference coming up in Canberra - - Bringing government to the people through the web - - Democracy not Disunity - - Phil Burgess and what's wrong with our political culture - - A Continuing and Permanent Ideas Database - A Must! - - Facilitating consultative democracy...

PRODUCTIVITY & COMPETITIVENESS: Australia Needs Home-Based Employment - - Planning for the future: the need for a National Workforce Planning Strategy / where education and employment needs collide - - Focused retention strategies key to attracting the workforce of the future - - Working smarter - - Cultural Melting Pot: Productive Diversity in the Workplace - - CRM solutions - avoid the pitfalls; reap the rewards - - Responding to the skills shortage - - Paranoid about customer satisfaction? So you should be - - Combating the skills shortage means rebuilding from within - - IBM Global CEO Study: CEOs Battle to Keep Up With the Pace of Change - - Realising the Adaptable Workforce - - How is Web 2.0 influencing and delivering e-recruitment and talent retention in Australia? - - Ruth Medd stalks the boards - - Lifting Australia's productivity by 2012 - - Changing the Concept of Productivity... 

LIFESTYLE: Networking Online: Risks, Rewards and Manners - - South African experience... - - “The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway…" - - Revisiting the Past in Perth - - Travelling to History - - Strasbourg in 3 hours - - Geotourism: What is a Geotourist? - - The Right Way to Travel

INNOVATION IN AUSTRALIA: Curiosity Driven Education the Key to a Future of Innovation - - Virtualisation Technologies: Coping with Constant Change - - Enterprise-ing Web 2.0 - - Peter Roberts' innovation blog - - Collaborate or collapse - - Our attitudes to innovation survey report released - - Aussie Innovation Community - - National policy for innovation forum - - Stephen Wilson on modern management and compliance - - "Second Track" processes - - What can be done to address the bias in Australia's innovation policy? - - Innovation requires a collaborative approach... 

AUSTRALIAN ECONOMY: How bad will the recession be and how long will it last? - - Good Politics / Bad Economics (Blessed are the young!) - - Walking the Talk - - Developing business contingency plans for the months ahead: consolidating and building - - Consumer Outlook Encouraging for Responsible Investment - - Gains from trade: vouchsafing the public good of liquidity in financial markets - - The sorry state of our economy - - When interests collide… - - Define a "Working Family"? - - A national information policy? - Short memories, deep pockets: a bad combination - - Understanding Asia's Daily Concerns  - - Fighting inflation the old fashioned way - - Calling all polyglots - - Looking for Love in Decoupling World - - A standards strategy measures up to global trade challenges - - The interesting thing about interest rates - - Why should we value intangible assets? - - Knowledge and technology are key to value creation...

AUSTRALIA 2020 SUMMIT: Summit Outcomes: Did they get it right? - - The Productivity Agenda - - Future of the Australian economy - - Sustainability and Climate Change - - Rural Australia - - Health - - Communities and Families - - Indigenous Australia- - Creative Australia - - Australian Governance - - Australia's Future in the World - - Russell Yardley says small business and creating technology was ignored by Summit - - Delegate Narelle Kennedy reflects on the Australia 2020 Summit - - Inside the 2020 Summit: A healthy look at the future, Stephen Leeder reports - - A chance to continue the conversation, writes Ben McDevitt - - Prof Stuart Hill warnes about mistakes to avoid when seeking to create a better world - - Brief commentary for consideration by the 2020 Summit by Prof Kerry Cox - - HECS and Stopping the Brain Drain ...

PRIVACY & TRUST: A New Year's Resolution? Don't forget ID Management, Mutual Authentication and the ruthless power of social engineering! - - International Privacy - some myths exposed - - National e-Security Awareness Week - - Malcolm Crompton's privacy blog - - Let kids ‘skin their knees' to beat Cyberbullying - - Social networks in organizations: balancing risk, reward, and transparency - - It's Miller Time - - If you wouldn't do it in the real world - don't do it online - - Stephen Wilson applies Metcalf's Law to personal data management - - Initial proposal for a new approach to privacy - - Plurality of Identities, and trouble ahead with biometrics - - When does a key become an identifier?...  

WORK / LIFE BALANCE: Flexible work practices mean getting back to basics - - Leading by example - - Kerry Fallon Horgan explains how to become an "Employer of Choice" - Impact of technological developments on our lives  - -  Succ - - essful retention strategies - what are they?...  

HEALTH: Reducing Medical Misadventures: "My name is Atul Gawande and I'm a surgeon" - - e-Health Forum - - A Fairer Approach to Risk Equalisation - - Tony Abbott on Health Care Agreements - - POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY - happiness, well-being and satisfaction with life - - Can the ads - - Stan Goldstein casts some doubt on the "self-evident need" for EHR - - Exclusive interview with Tony Abbott - - e-Health records - where are they? - - Chronic disease management, health policies and more...

U.S. POLITICS: What will history make of George W Bush's presidency

PUBLIC SECTOR EFFICIENCY: Infrastructure -- making public spending more productive - - Independent Review of the Australian Government's use of ICT...  

SPATIAL DATA: What is a Spatially Enabled Government? - - Creating Spatial Opportunities - - Peter Woodgate predicts multi-billion dollar impact of spatial data on the Australian economy - The Surveyor General introduces NSW Lands' Spatial Information Exchange... 

MEDIA: What do information users want? - - Government PR from a journalists' point of view - - Democracy not Disunity - - Freedom of bad news, or freedom from bad news? - - Something is rotten in the state of ... news-reporting - - The electronic grapevine and the great information noise - - What we can all learn from "The Simpsons"...

PARENTING: Paid maternity leave from a small business owner's point of view - - Curbing cyberbullying is as much about the parents as it is the kids! - - The Fatherhood Revolution - - No Fee: No See - - Finding time for kids - - Tiny feet treading lightly - - If parents are the key to the future, what do they need? - - Let kids ‘skin their knees' to beat Cyberbullying - - Dealing with the big shift - - Monica Lamelas explains why mums and dads matter - - Jeanne-Vida Douglas advocates for paid parental leave - - Myths and facts of maternity - - What to make out of the stay-at-home Dad? - - Motherhood for baby boomers - -  To smack or not to smack - - Paid maternity leave is not a capricious feminist whim, says Tamara Plakalo...

INTERNATIONAL: The Rise of Russia and the next "American Century" - - Paper up the cracks. Undesirables coming through - - Anwar is as "Anwar" does - - Chinese not as ideologically stubborn as the West thinks - - The Great Game Mark II - - Pakistan, Taliban, Politics and the US - - Asian Studies and the Myth That One Size Fits All - - US soldier refuses to serve in ‘illegal Iraq war' - - They shoot girls, don't they?* - - When transition pirates become 'great achievers' - - Globally (dis)connected - - Croatians get cranky with diaspora vote...