March 2012
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The real problem with government is... →
Australia probably has one too many levels of government. State Governments are completely expendable in my view. But given we couldn’t agree to change the name of the Governor General a few years back, the likelihood of a wholesale rewrite of the constitution getting up is not even remote.
The next best thing would be to just get them off the critical path. In Australia all the money...
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Social media and national security →
Comparing the social media experience in Australian and US diplomacy. A battle to get a single twitter feed vs over 600 social media accounts and training diplomats in batches of 50. Guess who’s who?
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Paperless Contracts at Yarra Ranges →
This article in the MAV Bulletin gives a brief overview of how using digital signatures allowed Yarra Ranges to drop their contracts turnaround from weeks to hours. Presumably it also saves a lot of scanning to get the documents into the records system!
