Was good until you spoiled it by getting political:

>"The Abbott Government has capitalized on the failure of the Experience+ program and has demonized older Australians and their healthcare needs."

I was going to contribute on policy development, design and implementation and how it is a project and should be managed with formal project management and project performance measurement process. This is something Dr Peter Shergold, head of PM&C and head of the public service, was implementing in the public service during the Howard government, but all stopped when Rudd took over as PM.

However, your partisan political comment suggests your post is driven by motivated reasoning, so I doubt you'd be much interested in other views.

...It is the politicians of low caliber Malcolm King, which drive political agendas; (unfortunately for us)! Was that the lesson learned?

All good Malcolm.

The thing that strikes me like a torpedo in the face is that you are capable of writing good stuff with a logically flowing succession of points…. and yet you are so incredibly off the planet regarding population growth and all those who espouse anything other than a massive continuous unending increase to our population.

Perhaps you need to think about this in terms of policies of all sorts and the implementation thereof... and how it affects your credibility if you are going to write serious articles about other matters.

its heaps easier to talk big
but the fruits judge the life.

policy is one of those things that cant be done wrong
cause policy only lasts/between election cycles/the rest is done by public service[if only they would refuse 'policy'..as being unlawfull order

ie nothing allows the govt to declare war on its own people
yet we have theese real wars by govt on kids caled a war on druggies
[its ok to name call dopers and no hopers but not sex nor race

where lies the policy?
its modified by UNLAWFULL CONTRACT CALED TREATY
see only the living can be bouND BY CONTRACTED OATH..so amny treaty can only exist between living entities[no external parties]

but..individuals and corperations/now can invade and oot by policy-alone

our policy iws sel it all at one third the cost and a quarter its value

contract to buid saomething else capitalists wont rish their own money on/then sel some more and build a slush fund here

see policy..has too many levels..in too many realms/of too many reason and meaning..thing is party policy shoud be ratified or nulified at electoral defeat

ie win the next election to ratify your poicy before the people
you must have a clear win/to get that policy officialy in

but treason does its nest feathering too well
private public service funds no worries/medical researtch
JOBS FOR THE BOYS SLUSH-fund..no sweat.

I WAS TOLD GOVT POLICY[ALP]WAS NO DRUG WAR
HE LIED..that day policy..[legislated..into revenue raising sin tax..as if real-law..died...as was blind faith iN ANY POLICY

INSURANCE policies are fraud...all POLICY IS FRAUD
THATS THE POLICY I POLICE MY MORALS BY

POLICY=policing..by other shame/name scam

Yes Diver, I'm afraid that was a major problem too. We could never get timely or consistent information from Ministerial offices.

Shergold's thinking and writing were a major positive influence on my career. It's not a case of Lib or Lab, it's a case of making sure the implementation phase is factored in to the initial policy development.

Malcolm, can you see from your premise - the perverse inability of political organisations to act rationally - your conclusion is daft that the solution is more political solutions?

Can you see that if governments adds costs to employing people, the result will be more difficulty for people getting employment?

Can you see how, if government has a policy to increase aged employment to address a "fiscal gap", the conclusion that the government has the competence to manage demography, taxes, and employment, is based on an assumption that is not supported by the facts?

Can you see that, if there are valid reasons for not employing young people because of lack of experience, and invalid reasons for not employing them because of age prejudice, it is irrational to assume that the reason is always invalid because of age prejudice?

And the same for older workers?

It is very annoying when people running an irrational belief system keep insisting that it's right even when they are swimming through facts that show the obvious possibility that their assumptions are wrong.

Yes JKJ, and no more outstanding example, than the way the self serving, empire building, public service, have managed tax policy and or, implementation?
Government policy is only as good or bad, as the public service advice it receives, or acts on, or is the final arbiter, of which policy paradigms, get the official nod or roll out.
Which probably explains, why we, with one single exception, are the most over-governed people on the planet, or can boast, the most complex and or porous/loop hole loaded, tax system on earth?
For mine, and given outcomes, senior public service figures should be on 3-4 year contracts, and changed with every change of government, to at the very least, "ALLOW" some of the overdue reforms, they almost alone, resist or repeatedly advise against?
And if proven true, makes them the real power behind the throne, so to speak?
Rhrosty.

"The matter is being looked into by the related investigators," he said.
How to create a nonsense paper
http://www.nature.com/news/publishers-withdraw-more-than-120-gibberish-papers-1.14763?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews
Labbé developed a way to automatically detect manuscripts composed by a piece of software called SCIgen, which randomly combines strings of words to produce fake computer-science papers. SCIgen was invented in 2005 by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge to prove that conferences would accept meaningless papers — and, as they put it, “to maximize amusement” (see ‘Computer conference welcomes gobbledegook paper’). A related program generates random physics manuscript titles on the satirical website arXiv vs. snarXiv. SCIgen is free to download and use, and it is unclear how many people have done so, or for what purposes. SCIgen’s output has occasionally popped up at conferences, when researchers have submitted nonsense papers and then revealed the trick.

Labbé does not know why the papers were submitted — or even if the authors were aware of them. Most of the conferences took place in China, and most of the fake papers have authors with Chinese affiliations. Labbé has emailed editors and authors named in many of the papers and related conferences but received scant replies; one editor said that he did not work as a program chair at a particular conference, even though he was named as doing so, and another author claimed his paper was submitted on purpose to test out a conference, but did not respond on follow-up. Nature has not heard anything from a few enquiries.


“I wasn’t aware of the scale of the problem, but I knew it definitely happens

U.O.G:
Extremely interesting!
Rhrosty.

DEAR MALCOM IN THE MIDDLE
im posting this link
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=16430&page=26
exposing huge frauds

one page/i done the research
its yours if i dont need post it here again on your thread[more clearly\

its a mess/but so to the implications of selling off telstra and the rotal mint
while were at it/there is the issue of the queens coin debasement

what you need do dear minester
s expose these crimes/in parlement..like they do spill motons at question time/except do this one on why standard orers nee be suspended/to talk of odious [ie criminal debt
and OFFICIAL MALFEASENCE

as well as collude treason[WHEN HER ROYAL majestie coins values were debased[from gold/silver coin[aswa conctitutes made over into cupra nickle

compounding the high treason/of giving money issueing [money creation].by the fed to bankers
who now HAVE BULT UP UNTOLD ODIOUS DEBT/AND SCRAMBLE TO HIDE TEIR LOOT INTO income reurning asset[to avoif the deflation[inflation cycle the rest of us will get any day now

too many huge bubble
read out the enron list
but first readthat one last page[first link]
try to see THE DANGER[very real/very oppresivly getting worse/fast
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/05/enron-2-0-wall-street-wants-manipulate-state-energy-markets-just-like-manipulates-every-market.html
timming is everything
d]

the quick cure is revalue her royal highness coins/to restore their inherant solver/gold values/just tokenism/but one cnt coin [1with two extra 0's]/gives many money to spend./but thats another issue/for later

first govt needs inform this urgent danger
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=16430&page=26

then restore/govt\creating-its own means/of asistance.
by/informed concent[this time]