This short video wraps up some of the outcomes and ideas of “Public Sphere 2: Gov 2.0” along with thanks by Senator Lundy to all those who contributed. We had some technical issues with this vodcast wchich resulted in us having to capture the video via a screencast, so our apologies for the low video [...]
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Public Sphere 3 wrapup
Update 2: all video content from the day is now online. Update: all the Public Sphere 3 data was also put into an interactive analysis tool by Palantir, which would be useful for people to look at. The Public Sphere on ICT & Creative Industry development last Friday drew together people from all over the [...]
Retired public servants continue super campaign
Retired Commonwealth public servants have vowed to start a new campaign to have their superannuation payments linked to average weekly earnings. There has been a long-running campaign to change the indexation for superannuation from the consumer price index (CPI) to average weekly earnings. But after commissioning a report on the issue the Federal Government has [...]
Disappointing announcement on the Matthews Report
The Matthews Report and the initial Government response to the report were released at 2 p.m. today by Minister Lindsay Tanner’s office. Of course, like SCOA and the Defence Welfare organisations, I am devastated that, contrary to our hopes and expectations, Mr Matthews concluded that he had “not found that there is a case for [...]
Gov 2.0 Briefing Paper handover and Q&A event
Update: the event streaming and main online discussion will be at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/gov-2-taskforce-q-a This event is for the handover of the finalised briefing paper and the recommendation voting results from the Government 2.0 Public Sphere held by Senator Kate Lundy July 22nd 2009. http://www.katelundy.com.au/2009/07/29/briefing-paper-and-recommendation-endorsements-from-public-sphere-2-government-2-0/ The entire Australian Gov 2.0 Taskforce will be available for a Q&A [...]
Briefing paper and recommendation endorsements from Public Sphere 2: Government 2.0
The Government 2.0 Public Sphere briefing paper was finalised on the wiki a week ago, and now we have launched the prettified pdf version, complete with graphs, photos from the day, and a useful mind map! The briefing paper has been sent to the Australian Gov 2.0 Taskforce, and in the coming weeks we’ll coordinate [...]
Public Sphere #3: Australian ICT & Creative Industries Development
Update: See all videos below and linked in the schedule below. Update: The briefing paper for this Public Sphere topic is available for public editing from the 10th September till the 7th October 2009. Update: The draft schedule is below and all information for the day (including a link for the video, but also the [...]
Tanner has Comsuper & Defence pensions
Following the blog discussion, I have double checked the administrative arrangements for public sector superannuation, and the Federal Minister responsible. It is definitely Minister for Finance, Lindsay Tanner. Please note that while the responsibility for Superannuation is now with Minister Bowen, Comsuper and Defence Super has been moved to the Finance portfolio. This is a [...]
Government 2.0 Public Sphere: Next steps
I am happy to report that yesterdays Public Sphere event on Government 2.0 was a great success! We had over 170 attend throughout the day, 300 people contribute on Twitter during the day (with over 2500 Tweets!), over 400 watching the live video streaming and already over 100 comments on the main page. We had [...]
Wrap up & next steps for Public Sphere Camp
I want to formally thank all of the presenters at the Public Sphere Camp Gov 2.0: Policy and Practice event at parliament house yesterday. All the speakers obviously put an enormous effort into their presentations. I am really grateful everyone was good-humoured about working within very tight time frames, and still able to convey such [...]
