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Action at home and abroad
The past few weeks CPD has engaged on policy debates across Australia and overseas. Innovation, climate change, intergenerational wellbeing, asylum seekers and long-term value creation have been hot topics. More details below, including on CPD book launches!
Paris Climate Change Conference
Travers McLeod joined Jean-Pascal van Ypersele (Vice-Chair of the IPCC), Marie-Hélène Aubert (Adviser to the French President on COP21), Professor Ian Goldin (Director of the Oxford Martin School) and the former Presidents of Chile, Mauritius and Ghana as speakers at the Progressives for Climate Conference in Paris. Supported by the French Government, the conference debated how to raise local and global ambition to counteract climate change in the lead-up to COP21. Delegates were left in no doubt that Australia has become an international laggard. CPD was also part of a separate workshop with think tanks from around the world to discuss collaboration on shared policy challenges, including inequality and the role of government.
WA Innovation Forum
Joining a range of leaders in Western Australia, Travers McLeod addressed a forum hosted by Governor Kerry Sanderson AO on building a better future for WA. Discussions centred around incentives driving innovation, the challenges ahead, and how to foster a collaborative culture.
Intergenerational Report Response
Progress, Governomics & Book Launch with Michael Kirby
Progress 2015
CPD Policy Director Kelly Farrow and Sam Hurley are convening panels at #Progress2015, joining a bunch of brilliant speakers and over 1000 other civil society campaigners. See the program here.
Governomics
CPD fellows Ian McAuley and Miriam Lyons have released Governomics. They show an emaciated state is bad for business, and that standing up for government means standing up for a public sector that truly serves the public. MUP have offered CPD subscribers a 20% discount! Use this discount code at checkout: GOVERN20
Ian and Miriam will launch the book at the below locations in May and events in June:
- Paperchain Bookshop, Canberra - 14 May
- Readings Carlton, Melbourne - 19 May
- Stanton Library/Constant Reader, Sydney - 22 May
- Avid Reader, Brisbane - 27 May
Michael Kirby to launch Rule of Law in War
Travers McLeod will be joined by the Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG, Prof. Bruce Oswald CSC and Lynne Haultain to launch Rule of Law in War at the University of Melbourne on 19 May. OUP are offering a 30% discount to attendees. RSVP for the launch here.
Media Highlights
CPD fellow Ian Dunlop wrote in the SMH about the climate challenge and the role of stateswomen in building a clean economy.
Travers McLeod joined Mark Triffit in The Conversation to argue climate change has exposed a crisis in our democratic system.
Governomics has been profiled by Crispin Hull in The Age and by Ian McAuley and Miriam Lyons in the Canberra Times.
What we've been reading
- Sir Tony Atkinson argues we can do much more about inequality.
- The optimal size of the 21st century public sector is larger than last century.
- Climate change will impact our health and security too.
- Decisions in Canberra have increased pressure on state government budgets.
- Co-authored by Kelly Farrow, this discussion paper out of Europe explores partnerships between refugee diaspora groups and development organisations.
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