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    • Dr Martin Bortz

    Senior Research Fellow (Honorary), Melbourne School of Government, University of Melbourne

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    Politics & Society

    The limits of government outsourcing

    Failures in Victoria’s hotel quarantine have highlighted concern that outsourcing is hollowing out government. So when is contracting out appropriate and when isn’t it?

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    Arts & Culture

    What we can learn from festivals like Rainbow Serpent

    Transformative festivals like Australia’s Rainbow Serpent are a global phenomena, and research on these grand social experiments is yielding insights into human organisation and cooperation

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    Politics & Society

    Reducing governments’ reliance on consultants

    Consulting to Australian state and federal governments is big business, but sharpening the capacity and critical thinking of civil servants could reduce reliance on the industry

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