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