The Government’s response to the 2020 ideas summit illustrates, once more, the enduring allure of the techno-fix. If boosting research into the bionic eye is the best idea, then we need better vision.
2020 Summit
2020 summit-goers underwhelmed by inaction
Only nine from nearly 1000 ideas generated at the Rudd Government’s 2020 Summit have been given the green light.
2020 anniversary passes without a word, except from Costello…
If we don’t hold politicians to their promises, can we blame them for lying to us? Asks Jeff Sparrow.
Remember the 2020 summit? Whatever happened to those Big Ideas…?
The Rudd Government may have hit the ground reviewing but that hasn’t meant it was totally in tune with the collective mindset of a number of summit groups, write Bernard Keane and Eleri Harris.
Remember the 2020 summit? Here’s what happened next …
Many of the ideas that emerged from the summit were valuable, even if at times the whole affair looked like a left-wing party, write Bernard Keane and Eleri Harris.
Misstepping on minefields could get painful for Rudd
There are some signs of ill-judgement creeping into the Government’s performance, writes Bernard Keane.
Fixing Politics: in the wake of the 2020 Summit
A conviction that government was the answer was also central to the 2020 summit, writes Bernard Keane.
Attack of the luvvies fails to hit its target
The Prime Minister may be finding petro-politics difficult to negotiate at the moment, but there’s one bright spot: at least the luvvies now hate him, writes
The 2020 PR tender that wasn’t
The Age today diligently continues to poke at the appointment of a Labor-connected PR firm to handle media liaison for the 2020 Summit without a tender process, writes Bernard Keane.
2020 breakaway group itching to fight Garrett
Delegates that attended the Creative Australia strand of the 2020 Summit have been angered by the censorship of ideas within the Initial Summit Report, writes Nicholas Pickard.
Tips and rumours
It is understood that the Federal Government has included on its list of potential candidates for the appointment as Judge to the High Court, solicitor and Managing Partner of the Melbourne office of law firm Mallesons Stephen Jacques, Ros Grady. With Chief Justice Gleeson about to retire as he reaches the age of 70, one […]
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Crikey Says: Crikey Says
It’s official. The 2020 Summit did produce a plethora of marvellous ideas — it’s just that they disappeared as they progressed from the fertile minds of the Summiteers to the heavy hands of the Facilitators.
Inside the 2020 Summit: How health lost its way
The great opportunity for a proactive health summit response was largely missed by the narrow responses proposed by the participants, Ian Hickie.
Inside the 2020 Summit: A healthy look at the future
In proposing a national health strategy, major points of agreement emerged quickly among the hundred delegates in the Health Strategy Stream, writes Professor Stephen Leeder.
Two health insider views from the 2020 Summit
Professors Ian Hickie and Stephen Leeder give their verdicts on the 2020 health debate.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups
The Costello memoirs … the 2020 Summit … the Republic debate … community radio stations … opposition polling … tax reform …
Tips and rumours
Boeing strike: will all 700 workers lose their jobs? According to one of the many striking workers unhappy with the unions actions at the Boeing site in Port Melbourne, American contractors were told to pack their bags yesterday and head for the US - the suspicion is that Boeing is planning to close down their […]
Summit Idol: Mostly covers but some real gems too
The Australia 2020 Summit has done for Deep Thought what Australian Idol did for karaoke, writes Miriam Lyons.
Rundle: I spy with my bionic eye…
Nothing that resulted really contradicts the notion that 2020 was undemocratic in principle and practice, writes Guy Rundle.
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Rudd’s 2020 summit … the Summit and the Republic debate … The Age … Charles Goode …
Mungo: 2020 offers catharsis, but little actual achievement
If it has achieved nothing else, Kevin Rudd’s 2020 Vision Thingo has given new meaning to the term Mass Debate, writes Mungo MacCallum.
Tips and rumours
I have it on good authority that Don Watson will certainly not be returning to political life to write speeches for Kevin Rudd. Nevertheless, the search for new speechwriters to upgrade the PM’s rhetoric is on in earnest. This includes the PM’s office and department. I’m told that the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet […]
2020 summit snips, aka Cate watch
Enthralling snippets from the 2020 summit…
