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  • STATEMENT ON THE VOICE
  • BACKGROUND TO THE STATEMENT ON THE VOICE
  • First Nations, Museum Responsibilities: History, Truth and Symbols
  • Indigenous Peoples: Closing the Gap in the Face of Resilience, Courage and Humour
  • Governments and Corporations – An Update
  • Unicorns and Trees: an Address to the Future
  • Australia’s Carbon Emissions Target: Intellectual Laziness At Work
  • John Howard, Climate Change Denier and much more!
  • Are we really all here? Do we all really count?
  • Are we really being business-like in the arts and cultural organisations where we live?
  • Christopher Pyne’s University Reform Fiasco
  • Tony Abbott and the Heart of Darkness
  • Tony Abbott and the Heart of Darkness Part 2
  • The American Dream in Crisis by Robert Putnam: A Review
  • Managerial Firms and Rentiers: How Corporate Behaviour is driving Inequality
  • Government Policy and the Economic Environment at the turn of the Year, December 2016: Health, Education and Corporations
  • ABC Turmoil: A crisis in governance and government
• Education: Life’s Choices – Introductory Background
  • A Word on Economics
  • Neoliberal Economics : a Failure of Theory or a Theoretical Failure?
  • An Alternative View: Behavioural Economics
  • Early Childhood: A World of Relationships
  • Early Childhood: The Nature of Early Experiences
  • Early Childhood: Critical Relationships with the Mother
  • Best Teaching Part 1: How teachers make a difference – John Hattie
  • Best Teaching Part 2: Graham Nuthall, What goes on in the classroom and how do children learn?
  • Best Teaching Part 3: Lauren Resnick & Accountable Talk + Stephen Raudenbush – More from Chicago
  • Best Teaching Part 4: Jonathan Osborne, Argumentation and a Science Curriculum
  • Tests, League Tables and Accountability: A Democratic Right to Know?
  • Teacher Pay and Performance
  • Public or Private: Marketisation, Parental Choice and Competition
  • Public or Private: Schools in Australia
  • Universities and Tertiary Education
  • ‘Unicorns and Trees’: Why education reform isn’t working.
  • School Leadership: Leadership In Education
  • Organising Schools for Improvement: Lessons from Chicago
  • The Education of Christopher Pyne
  • School Leadership and School Autonomy
  • The School Curriculum and Other Interventions: Moving Deck Chairs on the Wrong Ship
  • Learning, Creativity and Early Childhood
  • Teaching and School Performance
  • Education and Inequality
  • How history influences education practice in Finland
  • The Myth of School Choice: Government support for Independent Schools and Standardised Tests
  • The Myth of School Choice: the Economics of Independent Schools and Australian Government Policy
  • The Myth of School Choice: Genuine improvement happens when everyone collaborates for the benefit of the children
  • The School Education Bunfight or how Populism, Ideology and Political Cowardice distorts Policy
  • Educational Opportunity and Education Reform
  • Improving Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
  • Australian Education Policy 2019
    • Education Policy in Australia: The fifty years from Whitlam to Morrison
    • The First Gonski Report
    • The Second Gonski Report – Through Growth to Achievement”, a “Review to Achieve Educational Excellence in Australian Schools
  • PISA 2018: Education Policies: Economic, Social and Organisational Influences
    • PISA 2018 Part 1 The Report and the Response
      • PISA2018-1.1 Education Policy
    • PISA 2018 Part 2: Education Policy In Australia And Its Failings
      • PISA2018-2.1 – The Coleman Report and Public Education
      • PISA2018-2.2 The Cost of Independent Schools
      • PISA2018 2.3 Alan Reid on Education
      • PISA2018 2.4 Selective Schools and Exceptional Students
      • PISA2018-2.5 Nobel Prize in Economics 2019 – Poverty and Education
      • PISA2018-2.6 John Guenther on First Nations students in Remote Communities
    • PISA 2018 Part 3: The Social And Economic Environment
      • PISA2018 -3.1 Unequal Society and its Cost
      • PISA2018- 3.2 Work, rest and play in Australia
      • PISA2018 – 3.3 The 2011 riots in English cities
      • PISA2018 – 3.4 Marilyn Waring and Women’s Work
    • PISA2018 – Part 4:  Schools as Organisations
      • PISA2018 – 4.1 Social Capital
      • PISA 2018 – 4.2 Viv Grant & How are the Children
    • PISA2018 Part 5: Concluding Statement
      • PISA2018 – 5.1  “We are losing sight of students”
      • PISA2018 – 5.2 – Neoliberal Economics, Democracy, Organisations and the Consequences for Education
      • PISA2018 – 5.3 Value Creation, Merit Selection and a Moral Society
• Consulting & Advice
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  • Questionnaire On The Effective Management Of Museums
• Museum Story Archive
  • Museums 2002
  • Museums 2003
• The Effective Museum
  • ICOM Australia Award 2016 for Individual Achievement
  • Securing the Future
  • If Museums are to be Successful they must …
  • Leading Museums And Botanic Gardens Is Not Project Management
  • The Natural History Museum, London: A late unpleasantness!
  • Five Issues for Museums
  • Thomas Campbell, new Director of the Metropolitan Museum
  • Design Interpretation for Experience
  • Museums and Understanding
  • Performance Indicators
  • Museums, Boards & Governments Part 1
  • Museum Issues
  • Participating Museums
  • Conclusions from the Study
  • Summary
• Leadership, Management & Governance
  • Articles on Leadership
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  • Articles on Futures
  • Transformational Leadership
  • Leading Science
  • Choice Theory
  • Sumantra Ghoshal on Governance Theory and Practice
  • Organizational Development – More (lost in translation)
  • Rich Data and Managing by the Evidence
  • Lessons from Professor Atul Gawande
  • A chat with Herb Kelleher: Why Southwest Airlines succeeds
  • Leadership: Vinit Nayer and Employees First, Customers Second
  • Some useful quotations
• Essays
  • The Work of Leadership is an Investment
  • Governance
  • Lessons from Nonprofit Governance Practice
  • Museums in Australia from Pigott to Carroll
    • Museums in Australia For Us – Part 1
    • Museums in Australia For Us – Part 2
    • Museums in Australia For Us – Conclusion
  • Museums at the Crossroads: What Crossroads?
  • Quality
  • More on Quality
  • Update on the Declaration of the Universal Museum
  • Getting the Best Leaders
  • Strong Leadership or Strong Leadership: That is the Question
  • A New Agenda for Boards and Executive Leaders
  • Museums Have Visitors, Not Customers And Serve Communities Not Markets; Well not the markets of market analysts anyway
  • Wolfgang Dreschler and New Public Management
  • Is there a Future for an Educated Australia
  • Managerialism, Accountants and Self-interest
  • You can only connect the dots later on: The real lessons Steve Jobs has left us
• Museums & Indigenous Peoples
  • Principles of Previous Possessions New Obligations
  • Recent Developments in Museums and relations with Indigenous Peoples
  • The British Government’s Working Group on Human Remains
  • Return of Tasmanian Aboriginal remains
• Publications
  • Natural History Museums, the Natural Environment and the 21st Century
  • Natural History Collections: A Resource for the Future
  • Museums for the 21st Century
  • Cultural Property Part 1
  • Cultural Property Part 2
  • NAGPRA: Efective Repatriation Programs & Cultural Change in Museums
  • Entrepreneurship in the Arts: Entrepreneurship in Museums
  • Leaders in Museums: Entrepreneurs or Role Models
  • The Future of Jobs: Reflections on the Royal Society and Academies Forum
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