This is a series of occasional columns by founding Vice-President Dr Geoff Edwards, published in The Norfolk Islander, commencing on 9 April 2022. We thank the proprietors for permission to re-publish without charge.
1. Introduction – the public service and the economic rationalist reforms of 1983-. (9 April 2022).
2. Australian experience of privatisation. (23 April 2022).
3. Erosion of Australia’s statecraft and implications of the Solomon Islands security deal. (30 April 2022).
4. Policy analysis. (14 May 2022).
5. Coordination. (4 June 2022).
6. Budgets are numbers in the air. (2 July 2022).
7. Governing Norfolk Island requires a knowledge of history (Privatising Telecom). (13 August 2022).
8. Governing Norfolk Island sustainably requires knowing what that means. (27 August 2022).
9. Governing Norfolk Island (or anywhere) sustainably requires trust. (22 October 2022).
10. Governing Norfolk Island (or anywhere) sustainably requires trusted staff. (12 November 2022).
11. Public budgeting as if Norfolk Islanders were beggars. (18 March 2023).
12. Only 20 months to prepare for democracy – Is anyone preparing? (29 April 2023).
13. Another governance blunder in the making? – Mountain bike strategy. (20 May 2023).