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TDSA conference presentation | 24 July 2013

NFPs: Survive or Perish
What’s driving your future?

CPD’s public service research director Christopher Stone was a keynote speaker at the Transport Development & Solutions Alliance’s (TDSA) biennial conference earlier this year.

The not for profit (NFP) sector is a major part of a healthy society alongside the public and private sectors. TDSA’s focus on ‘Driving Governance’ in 2013 seeks to stimulate its membership, readership and conference attendees to gain more knowledge and skills to be better able to drive their future rather than being driven.

Christopher Stone’s presentation – ‘Policy context for the third sector: future directions’

You can also view or download the slides

Help us counter evidence-free attempts to downsize and privatise our public services –  Become an Ideas Sustainer.

So long, and thanks for all the great ideas!

I have one of the best jobs in the country. I get to work with smart, dedicated, talented people to help make progressive ideas matter. It’s a privilege I’ve treasured since the Centre for Policy Development began over six years ago, and I’m about to leave it behind: I’m heading to Europe at the start of next year to take a long sabbatical and hang out with my lovely and very patient partner, who’s currently studying in Zürich. So, one of the best jobs in the country is now up for grabs.

I’m very excited about CPD’s plans and potential for the future, and proud of what we’ve done so far – the organisation is in great shape, with a great team, and I’m looking forward to staying involved as one of our many Fellows after I depart at the end of the year.

If you’d like to see a more hopeful vision for Australia and a more generous view of human nature reflected in public debates and public policy, if you love to work with smart people to dive into the evidence of what works and tell others of what you’ve learned, if you’re frustrated by the disconnect between ‘political reality’ and ‘reality reality’, if you dance with glee when you’ve successfully raised funds for a great project, if you’re sick of throwing things at the TV and would like to be a voice for great ideas, hard evidence and progressive thinking, then this is the job for you.

I’m so grateful to all of you who have supported CPD with your time, ideas, advice, energy, and donations during the last six years – you make what we do possible, and I hope you’ll continue your support over the coming years.

Applications close on October 18. If you think you might know the Centre for Policy Development’s next CEO, or you’d like to apply yourself, please head to http://cpd.org.au/2013/09/recruiting-new-cpd-chief-executive-officer/

Many thanks,

Miriam Lyons.

Get a copy of new CPD book Pushing our luck!

Pushing our luck: ideas for Australian progress
Get your hands on the hard stuff – hard copy books now available online

 

Buy a copy of Pushing our luck: ideas for Australian progress because:

it’s a great read
it gives important thinkers space to imagine better ways to do things, based on real evidence, for a fairer and more sustainable Australia
it goes beyond sound bites and slogans to look at the real issues that will shape Australia’s future
your purchase will help CPD to keep on making good ideas matter.

To order a copy now, please visit our ‘support CPD’ section here

 

** Kindle and ePub electronic versions will be available from this page in the coming days. 

** CPD will also be continuing our campaign to get copies of this important book into the hands of new parliamentarians and press gallery members – WATCH THIS SPACE!

 

2013 Festival of Ideas | Melbourne 1-6 October

2013 Festival of Ideas: The Art and Science of Wellbeing.

The University of Melbourne is hosting the 2013 Festival of Ideas. Miriam Lyons, CPD’s executive director, will be presenting along with a diverse array of speakers such as Kathy Lette, Mark Scott and Professor Marcia Langton.

“The Festival of Ideas is designed to capture and express the unique ability of the higher education sector to contribute to our national and global conversations. Encompassing the broad themes of “The Art and Science of Wellbeing,” the 2013 Festival will bring thought provoking presentations, discussions, debates and special events to Melbourne in October 2013.  A source of dynamic discussion for you!”

Imagine 2033: How We Achieved A Healthy and Sustainable Post-Carbon World

Miriam Lyons joins a panel which also includes CPD fellow and Pushing our luck co-author John Wiseman

WHERE

University of Melbourne, Victoria

WHEN

Tuesday 1 and Sunday 6, October, 2013. 

CONTACT

ideas-info@unimelb.edu.au

ADMISSION:

Festival of Ideas 2013: Imagine 2033 – how we achieved a healthy and sustainable post-carbon world

Sydney Morning Herald | 30 September 2013

Tony Abbott’s contempt for climate science:
IPCC report ‘most scrutinised document in the history of science’

The latest climate change report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has resulted in climate experts being more certain than ever before that humans are responsible for global warming. Temperatures are increasing and short periods of slower warming do not reflect any long-term trends. Despite this Australia appears to have elected a “climate denial government” that has begun an assault on climate change infrastructure.

As observed in this article by senior columnist for The Age Kenneth Davidson, CPD’s new book Pushing our luck contains a chapter ‘Climate change: reconnecting politics with reality’ by John Wiseman of University of Melbourne. John discusses how Australia could be leading the way in reducing carbon emissions rather than lagging behind other nations.

“The Centre for Policy Development notes there is bipartisan agreement between Britain’s Conservative-led coalition government and the Labour opposition that global warming is both a serious challenge (Britain is committed to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, from 1990 levels, of 34 per cent by 2020 and 80 per cent by 2050) and a major economic opportunity. (Prime Minister David Cameron said this year that: ”It is the countries that prioritise green energy that will secure the biggest share of the jobs and growth in a low carbon sector set to be worth $4 trillion by 2015.”)”

Find the article at The Sydney Morning Herald

Learn about Pushing our luck and order your copy

Sky news The Nation | 19 September 2013

Gender, jobs and refugees

CPD executive director Miriam Lyons joined Ross Cameron, Andrew Leigh and Alan Tudge with host David Speers on Sky News The Nation. On the heels of the election they discussed the lack of women in the new federal ministry, job cuts in public service and asylum seeker policy.

“What concerns me is that this is operation sovereign borders not operation humanitarian intervention, the idea that this is ultimately a border security issue rather than a humanitarian issue…the long-term way of dealing with that is through regional coordination and cooperation”

Short-term thinking cannot address Australia’s long-term dilemmas – Help us look further ahead!

 

 

Where and when to get your copy of Pushing our luck

(of course, you could cut to the chase and BUY YOUR COPY here).

Pushing our luck: ideas for Australian progress PUBLISHING SCHEDULE:

StartSomeGood crowd funding campaign: LIVE – support CPD’s publishing project NOW and help us get the good ideas out there!
30 Aug: pre-election preview e-book released - BUY NOW & get an e-book download right away plus a revised e-book after the election!
1 Sept: – Philanthropy Forum – presentation by Miriam Lyons
16 Sept: Anglicare Australia National Conference, Brisbane – presentation by Miriam Lyons
17 Sept: post-election e-book launched with panel including John Quiggin and Scott Steel (aka Possum Comitatus) at Avid Reader bookstore, Brisbane
26 Sept: Sydney Ideas – launch of print book and panel discussion with Eva Cox, Rebecca Huntley, Geoff Gallop, Roy Green, Ian McAuley and Jane Caro
2 Oct: Festival of Ideas, Melbourne – presentations by Miriam Lyons & John Wiseman
18 Oct: NUW Anti-Poverty Week event, Melbourne, speeches by Miriam Lyons & Lisa Heap
7-8 Nov: Progress 2013, Melbourne – ‘ Pushing our luck : Australia’s economic future’ panel discussion

For now, read more here under Pushing our luck, check (& like) our Facebook page for more news or follow us on Twitter

 

Recruiting: new CPD Chief Executive Officer

Miriam Lyons to depart CPD; search begins for new CEO
From the Chair of CPD’s Board of Directors:

Farewell to Miriam Lyons

On behalf of the CPD Board I would like to express our appreciation for the outstanding contribution Miriam has made as our founding Executive Director over the past six years.

We have admired her intellectual clarity, her relentless determination and her outstanding public profile. It is with regret we say farewell but we wish her all the very best as she embarks next year on a new stage of her life, overseas.

I’d like to thank all CPD’s stakeholders for their support as we begin a new stage of development with a new CEO. The position will be advertised from Friday 27 September.

Kate Miller

Chair

Centre for Policy Development

For a personal message from outgoing ED Miriam Lyons, please see CPD’s next eNews.

To apply for this exciting new position, please read and respond to the job description in the attached document, and send all enquiries to the addresses given in the ad.

Details are also available at EthicalJobs.com.au