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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 Ethics
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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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Essays on the Blog

Essays on subjects other that museums, organisational development and education, originally posted on a blog site are listed here in chronological order, the latest first. Articles on museums and education may also be posted on the site as well as on this site. All the essays, as of 30 October 2014, are also posted on this site, following the creation of the ‘In Australia’ page.

November 2013:

The Education of Christopher Pyne

John Howard, Climate Change Denier and much more!

Leading Museums And Botanic Gardens Is Not Project Management

October 2013:

Australia’s Carbon Emissions Target: Intellectual Laziness At Work

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