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Waste management forms the foundation of a nation – quite literally. Where there is rubbish in the streets, plastic bags flying through the air and polluting fences, and ground water contaminated by refuse the potential for joy among the population is limited. Nothing cheers us up like a clean environment that is loved and cared […]

Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, yesterday launched the ‘International Year for Small Island Developing States”. SIDS are already experiencing the on-going impact of climate disruption caused by unwise resource use. Last week, Ramos-Horta (Timor-Leste) and Nasheed (Maldives) urged Asian countries to ensure a more stable climate, by “(strengthening our) natural defences, embracing

There has been much discussion about how to fund infrastructure development. At the same time, approvals to mine for coal seam gas may lead to a degradation of our water sources. Over the last twenty years we have learnt to cost the services provided by government. We have left the value of what government does

.. if you always follow the easiest path, if you are always ruled by pleasure, self-love and self-gratification, do you not increase entropy and become staler and staler and heavier and heavier and more and more difficult and tiresome and exacting and small minded? Courtesy of Lani Morris via Psychological Commentaries On the Teaching of

The management of information security requires good teamwork and communication as well as technical skills. Mobile devices, laptops, easy remote access to databases and emerging technologies mean that the context and the risks being faced have to be fully understood if the information security strategy is to be effective. The risk profile of a business

Should business be concerned about spirituality? I’ve been self-employed virtually all my working life.  Since I was always profoundly engaged in spiritual questions and practice I always put spirituality at the foundation of my work. But what did this mean? I argued it like this: I defined spirituality as life, anima, that which animates.  Therefore

Building infrastructure and new buildings and providing residents with public assets (parks, cemeteries etc) provides politicians with photo opportunities that mark them as contributors to the future growth of the economy and the future quality of life of a city’s residents. Economists have asserted that capital investment, of itself, creates growth. But is this so?

How much have you invested in Australia? How much do you, as a citizen of Australia, of your state and a resident in your local government area own? What is it exactly that you are asking your elected members of Parliament to manage on your behalf? There are the services we use – public services

This morning in the Sydney Morning Herald, K McGovern & Associates’ Lani Morris explains how to find satisfaction at work. And, if you are a manager, how to bring more meaning to your workplace. She suggests: 1. Reduce bureaucracy 2. Keep change and restructuring to the absolute minimum. 3. Sit and listen to each other