Practical Resources

The people of Queensland have voted to retain public assets in public hands. What does this mean for the new government, and how can they demonstrate that they have fulfilled the people’s will? Sound financial management of our public sector would be expected by all Members of the Legislative Assembly. In April 2013 the “Queensland …

It’s time to have a good look at Queensland’s State Government Balance Sheet Read More »

Associate Lani Morris explains that using the Map of Meaning “is a new language because we have not traditionally expressed notions of meaningfulness even to ourselves.” She is quoted in this weekend’s QWeekend Magazine’s article by Kristina Olsson. Lani has been bringing the Map of Meaning to Australia for over five years. She has been …

Recognising the many-layered individual in the workplace Read More »

The wording of the sustainable development goals to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) was agreed last night. The draft will be presented to the General Assembly at its 68th session for its consideration and appropriate action. To read the agreed draft, see: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/4044SDGsfina_approved_19_July_1320pm.pdf

There are three areas to which I draw your attention. These are: 1. The call for the Auditors-General to independently review effectiveness is sound, particularly as they are supported by an international professional framework for undertaking effectiveness audits, and are focused on improving public administration, taking the longer-term view. This recommendation could be strengthened by …

Submission to Productivity Commission Read More »

K McGovern & Associates’ Lani Morris, in this morning’s Sydney Morning Herald article “Six things that will demoralise staff“, identifies the ways managers can demoralize staff. She uses the research supporting the “Map of Meaning” to identify areas which commonly add meaning and hence, if ignored, destroy meaning and, with it, productivity. The Map is …

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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 …

Waste Management – the Foundation of a Nation Read More »

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 …

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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 …

What infrastructure do we value? Read More »

.. 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 …

Maurice Nicholl’s Commentaries on the Teachings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky Read More »