All Posts Tagged With: "Kevin Rudd"
Revisiting Australia–Updated
Oh, would that I were getting on a plane to actually fly to Australia! Alas, this is instead a revisiting of the subject of Australia and its bureaucracies.
30Jul2009 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
Rudd and bureaucrats again…
Kevin Rudd‘s administration in Australia is going to continue to be of interest here because of his background as a bureaucrat, and his apparent dedication to bureaucracies that well serve the public. The operative word there is “apparent.” Time will tell the story, of course, but there’s a news item today–or technically, tomorrow, given that [...]
28May2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
Australia’s New PM Puts Major Focus on Bureaucratic Reform
I would suggest, however, that while we prefer our bureaucracies not be ideologically driven in the way the Bush administration departments have been politicized, advancing the idea of policies and processes that are responsive to their constituencies, as Rudd seems to have done, is expressive of an ideal, and in that way is putting forth a non-partisan ideology. Lacking a clear partisan ideology doesn’t mean that he’s “lacking ideology” altogether.
4May2008 | Deborah Alicen | 0 comments | Continued
