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🔥🤫 “A deal is a deal is a deal”: Operation Richmond, Part 2 🤫🔥
🔥🤫 “A deal is a deal is a deal”: Operation Richmond, Part 2 🤫🔥
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Unpacking lessons for the public service, starting with the Robodebt Royal Commission.
In 2019, after three years, Robodebt was found to be unlawful. The Royal Commission process found it was also immoral and wildly inaccurate.
Ultimately the Australian Government was forced to pay $1.8bn back to more than 470,000 Australians.
In this podcast we dive deep into public policy failures like Robodebt and the British Post Office scandal - how they start, why they're hard to stop, and the public service lessons we shouldn't forget.
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- 🔥🤫 “A deal is a deal is a deal”: Operation Richmond, Part 2 🤫🔥 · 55 min · Seizoen 4 Aflevering 17In Part 1, a secret deal was struck in a hotel room and walked into Cabinet as a “UFU proposal”. In Part 2, the deal has to survive contact with everyone who wasn’t in the room…
- 🔥🤝 “Handshake has occurred”: Operation Richmond, Part 1 🤝🔥 · 54 min · Seizoen 4 Aflevering 16In 2016, the Andrews government settled a bitter, years-long dispute with the firefighters’ union in a hotel room, then spent the next two years pretending it hadn’t. In August…
- **Revisit** ☎️ The Hon Amanda Vanstone AO - Inside the Westminster Machine · 1 u 11 min · Seizoen 3 Aflevering 9We are reliably informed that when this episode dropped a current Cabinet minister rang The Hon Amanda Vanstone and congratulated her. That’s a good enough reason for us to…
- **Revisit** 🏉 The Royal Commission we should have? The 2013 Essendon Football Club supplements scandal · 34 min · Seizoen 2 Aflevering 8You might like to get in the mood for AFL footy finals by revisiting this first episode of our three part series on the Essendon Footy club drug scandal! Meanwhile we will keep…
- **Revisit** 🗳️ Election special 🗳️ Caretaker conventions, IGBs and some 🥳 vox pops 🥳 · 51 min · Seizoen 3 Aflevering 6In honour of forthcoming Victorian and NSW elections, we are republishing this episode during our late winter hiatus. Enjoy!! **** The starter's gun has gone on Australia's…
- 🐊When the rains come: the gap between policy and delivery in remote Australia with Georgia Heath 🐊 · 1 u 28 min · Seizoen 4 Aflevering 15Danielle talks with Georgia Heath from Yup Yup Labs about what becomes obvious when you design services from far away, and why remote communities expose the hidden assumptions…
- 🧪🧮 We CAN test big policy ideas without slowing government down: Eleanor Williams from the Australian Centre for Evaluation 🧮🧪 · 40 min · Seizoen 4 Aflevering 14We talk with Eleanor Williams from the Australian Centre for Evaluation about making evaluation fast, rigorous, and genuinely useful for public service decisions. We move from a…
- The moment of maximum ignorance: evaluation in public policy part 2 · 49 min · Seizoen 4 Aflevering 14Three-quarters of government evaluations are commissioned to improve implementation. Two-thirds are commissioned for accountability. They're not the same thing, and building a…
- 💰 ‘Not your money’: reflections from government budget season ✂️ · 39 min · Seizoen 4 Aflevering 13Budget season is here — and it’s tighter than many public servants have been used to. Across Australian jurisdictions, governments are landing budgets with real constraints…
- Grumpy, elusive creatures defending well-defined territory: evaluation in public policy 🦡 · 54 min · Seizoen 4 Aflevering 12In 1997, Tony Blair’s government inherited a problem: tuberculosis in cattle was rising, farmers were furious, and nobody agreed on whether badgers were responsible. The solution…
- Fight club: things we never agree on · 57 min · Seizoen 4 Aflevering 11Inspired by the new podcast The Curiosity Shop, Alison, Danielle and Caroline take on the things they might never agree on — welcome to TWT Fight Club. In the ring: Do academic…
- Smart dissent: middle management · 54 min · Seizoen 4 Aflevering 10A new hypothetical scenario, this time from the big smoosh of middle management. Imagine if... your Minister has announced a 15-day processing target, your team is already…
- Seen and not heard · 56 min · Seizoen 4 Aflevering 9How public can public servants be in the social media age? Is having a LinkedIn account a professional necessity, or a professional risk? In this episode, Danielle, Alison and…
- Kylie Kilgour, Deputy Commissioner at the NACC: On Robodebt · 1 u 10 min · Seizoen 4 Aflevering 8In her first interview since the release of the NACC’s report into Robodebt, Deputy Commissioner Kylie Kilgour joins us to unpack her findings and what it all means for the…
- Robodebt: Reflections on the NACC's Findings · 1 u 0 min · Seizoen 4 Aflevering 7On 11 March, the National Anti-Corruption Commission released its findings on Robodebt. It found that two of the six referred public servants engaged in serious corrupt conduct…
- Mad Cow Disease part 4 - unblocking the beef chain · 43 min · Seizoen 4 Aflevering 6In our last episode on Mad Cow Disease, we take our final lessons from the public servicing of this massive health, agricultural and economic crisis. With the benefit of…
- Mad Cow Disease part 3 - too much on Monday, too little on Thursday · 40 min · Seizoen 4 Aflevering 5It’s March 1996 and the UK Government announces that mad cow disease has been linked to human cases. Within days beef consumption falls by half, public confidence is…
- What Makes a Bloody Good Policy Officer? · 1 u 6 min · Seizoen 4 Aflevering 4Few people come to policy officer positions with specific policy training. They might be teachers, lawyers, front-line workers or subject-matter experts. Who teaches us how to do…
- 'Mad Cow Disease' part 2 - a bogus professor and a dead cat · 33 min · Seizoen 4 Aflevering 3Part 2 of 4 on Mad Cow Disease: In this episode, the cracks in enforcement are showing, panic is slowly boiling, and the science is catching up. What we cover: The panic spike…
- 'Mad Cow Disease' part 1 - a crisis without a crime · 32 min · Seizoen 4 Aflevering 2We kick off a new series on 'Mad Cow Disease', or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), and what it teaches us about governing when the science is uncertain, the consequences…
