Governance, Public Policy, Decision Making and the Performance of The Power Collective in Australia
The material on this web site predominantly comments on decisions, actions and perceived performance politicians and bureaucrats.
However there are some overlaps with decision makers and behaviour within the corporate sector. It provides a range of sources to give a broad perspective to the reader, and student, of politics and democracy.
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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's Australia
Australia under Rudd
Australia under Gillard
Voter disenchantment
The Hung Australian Parliament.
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A number of selected public policy and interest issues, predictions and topics are published here,
and distributed to members of Australia's governments, business , institutions, enterprises and communities and individuals in Australia and internationally
before they become mainstream political issues,
debates and actions, and before they are covered extensively by major media. This site is linked to the Mosaic Portal network and also utilises RSS feed to distribute material.
The commentary, analysis and articles,
unless otherwise stated, are authored by Kevin. R Beck to foster awareness,
debate and education in the public interest.
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December 2007 and Kevin Rudd Sits in the PM's Chair
Let us hope that the labor government will address the matters set out below in the commentary on corruption and corrosion.
The refugees of the nation can sleep easy in the knowledge that they will not be summarily deported by an ignorant low grade ministry and bureaucracy. Kevin Andrews, the former liberal minister, stills sits in the parliament unfortunatley along with
another former draconian minister Philip Ruddock. These people hold seats in parliament demonstrating that unthinking, and ignorant, people are allowed vote in a democracy.
There is much to fix and much to do to eliminate the cancer that the Howard government and the Ministers of his era implanted in the nation.
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A CORRUPTED, MANIPULATED PARLIAMENTARY AND PUBLIC SERICE SYSTEM UNDER JOHN HOWARD AND THE MINISTERS OF HIS GOVERNMENT
IN NEED OF REFORM
Australia's primary public policy forums, the parliaments, are the province of two major political parties (labor and liberal) and a handful of political power brokers.
Information, and participation. is tightly controlled. Citizens are denied full access and secrecy and barriers to discovery and accountability are the hallmarks of Australia's
corrupted processes. Anyone who criticises, challenges or actively works against this power collective are seen as rocking the boat. They are the enemy to be treated accordingly.
They are subjected to denigration, dismissal, ridicule or worse, active
retaliation. The state versus the citizen is not the exception, it is the rule. Whistle blowers are not lauded as guardians of the public interest.
They are made examples of by a craven body politic and this includes the public service. This web page sets out examples and provides a forum for monitoring public policy. There are links to active utilities designed to counter this
manipulation of Australia's democratic systems. This corrosive control is being
challenged.
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Views of the Web Site Owner
"The world keeps getting more complicated and we keep having to explain it to you in simpler terms, so we can get our little
oversimplified explanations on the evening news. Eventually, instead of even trying to explain it, we just give up
and sling mud at each other." (Primary Colours, USA, 1996).
So who is to blame for this situation? People who cannot be bothered to educate themselves generally, and more particularly, about our cherished democracy?
The system that allows a few to control the selection and election of political candiadtes? Then once elected this system of presidential style
control, in the hands of the political and media advisers, who give Ministers trite, uninspiring and risk averse, speeches and material, thinking
that the average person cannot understand complex issues or that we will be gullible? Say it often and long enough and use taxpayer funded advertising and it will become fact.
Is it the journalists who now seem to be incapable of reporting in any depth.? Incapable of writing eloquently, and succinctly, with the
art of language that distills the political process, with critical eyes? Is it the television, radio producers and the press editors
who demand the thirty second voice grab, and produce the news by rote, limiting the scope of investigative reporting?
Perhaps it is the editor who wants articles that are either eight hundred or one thousand words? Articles that are fluff in content and which pander to the airheads and the
followers of celebrity. Is it the corporate leaders who belong to the clubby power colectives and who do not want to upset their propspects?
Perhaps it is all of them in unison, dumbing down the nation and making our democracy the property of a minority.
I ponder quite often the price I, and others, will likely pay for publishing our thoughts, perceptions, commentary and riducule
of the Australian system of politics and government and the
operation of our parliaments. There is a process within all of Australia's governments, and public services, to marginalise and silence critics, to deminise and
humiliate. There is a lack of accountability and responsibility. This is replaced by a willingness to use all of the resources, and technqiues
at their disposal, including public offifce and public monies, to maintain their political power bases and incumbency.
Even if this involves stealing and misusing funds and resources.
Many people will not speak out for they are afraid of retribution, losing their funding, or being held to ridicule
and being denied access to decision makers.
Whilst ever anyone remains silent, tolerating this abuse of process, government and delegated power, democracy in Australia will be the poorer. (Kevin R Beck, Melbourne, Australia)
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Kevin Beck's cynical rating schedule
The table below is not assembled on a whim or a lack of information. The perception rating arises as a result of extensive, broad and deep research and information gathering.
The owner of this web site interacts with Australian governments, and the public service, in a business and personal capacity.
This has been the case for
several decades. The owner is qualified to
university master's levels in research
methodologies and to post graduate levels in information technology and its utility. The content of the
Mosaic Portal web sites clearly demonstrates the justification of the claim that the table is not
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| Quality |
Policy |
Public Service | Integrity |
| Queensland |
5/10
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5/10 |
3/10 |
4/10 |
| New South Wales |
5/10 |
5/10 |
3/10 |
3/10 |
| Victoria | 3/10 |
5/10 |
4/10 |
1/10
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South Australia |
7/10 |
7/10 |
6/10 |
8/10 |
| Western Australia |
4/10 |
5/10 | 4/10
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0/10 |
| Tasmania |
0/10 |
1/10 |
3/10 |
0/10 |
| Northern Territory |
1/10 |
1/10
| 2/10 |
0/10
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Australia's brand, IP and job destroyers.
Media catches onto issue
Child health put at risk
as supermarkets place prominently labelled low fat, but with high sugar and high sodium content products, in small print on the ingredients panel, within reach.
Labelling laws are substandard in Australia as governments cower from confrontation.
Corporate social responsibility or lack thereof
Is Australia's education being dumbed down or the politicians and employers?
Shallow concepts spoken through a hat
Going nuclear and ballistic
KEVINRBECK predicted that nuclear
would be a hot topic in Australia in 2005
Wasted talents and opportunities
- the failure to utilise all of Australia's human resources
Australia's stand out human resources recruitment companies and the coming culling
Free trade agreement to put a scythe through Australia's board rooms and enterprises
How can one not get a bad attitude about human resource practices when major companies, such as this one below, respond in a manner that is ignorant (there is no author of this email reply)
and gives you no right of response back?
"Yours sincerely,
Deloitte Recruitment
Please do not reply to this message. Replies to this message are undeliverable".
Read about the above and the rest of the rant here
Existing Australian laws and systems regarding industrial relations as at June 2005
Proposed labour and employment laws, promulgated by the Australian government
Alternative view of the impact of the above proposals on Australian society and economy
Web site for politicians, government servants, corporate managers, boards and anyone else.
The Australian government has unveiled its planned changes to workplace relations and labour laws in Australia. To promote awareness the following information, and resources, on Australian and international labour laws is provided
the Australian government has no public record of creating innovation and visionary public policy and systems, nor legislation designed to harness Australia's human resource talent.
The Job Network has been close to financial crisis on too many occaions requiring injection of funds and its performance statistics have been
fashioned for fiction rather than fact. The Australian government spends an inordinate amount of energy and public funds on control and perception manipulation.
The control of elected members of parliament in vital debates, and their voting on bills, by the small executive of the major parties, denies individual electorates, and thus many citizens, across Australia, democratic participation in determining policies.
It should be the citizens of an electorate, who by some method of determining majority opinion and desire, direct their representatives in parliament.
This would require that the existing systems of politics, self interest, and government in Australian be changed to a true democracy and that apathy to participation by the greater number of citizens, be challenged.
Proposed labour and employment laws, Australia
Minimum conditions specification, Vietnam
Labor and employment laws, by country, Europe, includes the United Kingdom
Good practices in labour administration.
Labour relations, Ontario Canada
Labour laws and systems, Netherlands
Sample collective labour agreement, Netherlands
Bureau of International Labor Affairs, USA
Federal and state labor laws research utility, USA
Free trade and the issue of labor and employment laws
Pleasing the International Monetary Fund, changes to employment law in Colombo
Pleasing the International Monetary Fund, changes to employment law in Colombo
Archive, and distribution web site, of public policy articles
for the commonwealth, states and territories of Australia and other international issues
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The content, of this site, unless otherwise attributed, is authored by
Kevin R Beck,
Melbourne
Australia. It is catalogued by
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distributed
by the utilities of the Mosaic Portal Forum on DelphiForums. The distribution is
targeted to a particular audience through direct email lists. Distribution is at individual, regional, state, national or international by country and is not limited to Australia.
In certain cases the
distribution may be concurrent with local visits and consumer, or other, focus groups. We treat people as consumers of product and services.
These may be government, political,
representation or actual sold products and services. This is a commercial business approach. If we do not get a reaction initially we will persist and broaden the
strategy.
Do not simply dismiss this as web activism or the rantings of a
person
obsessed with the web, technology and self.
That would be an error of judgement. Human, and technology, resources and networks can, and will be, brought to
bear.
The world of business, commerce, government and society is complex. In this modern age,
ideas, and conviction, well planned and orcehestrated can engender some interesting outcomes. Soem of us have all the time, and inclination, in the
world. We alos have the resources for the long haul.
Do you, your management, board or employees, interest group or individual aspirant, really want to dance? We do take "pro bono" causes as well as
for profit assignments.
There are so many silly, and sometimes very talented people, who do take the offer.
I, and we, do not win all of the time. That is the fun of the
game.
Game theorists, and practitioners, live for the challenge and for the excitement.
As you can see, or may learn,
their activities are not limited to Australia.
Many people have ideas and want to participate in government and outcomes, in the public interest. Yet all governments and the public sector
ignore the communications, the approach or the offer, respond with alacrity or tell people to get in the queue or get in the tender or whatever,
spinning the usual government media unit and policy bullshit telling us verbally, or in writing,
the
general rules and policies, how the government has this or that process and what a wonderful job they are doing. Thanks for the enquiry and we value feeddback etc etc.
They refer us to a web site or some cant statement, which we already know. They are usually oblivious to the changing trends, attitudes, communications capabilities and resources at peoples' disposal.
The more active in society have networks in business, public service and community across Australia and outwards to other nations. They have business and personal objectives.
They bring these to bear.
Those who know the system and how diplomacy works, and are creative in their thinkling and activities, can create a lot of additional work, for public servants, ministers, parliamentarians and busines executives, if they
are summarily dismissed. Some can even
create barriers and problems to the implementation of a government policy or action. They can focus unwanted attention on the operation of public processes, bureaucracies, governments, and businesses. This includes the
performance of individuals within those entities.
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