Dr Martin Bortz

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

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?

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

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