Remember the chaos and conspiracy theories of 1999. The Y2K bug was going to be catastrophic and people everywhere were planning and creating all sorts of scenarios.  To be honest however, all I could think of was dancing to Prince – “we gonna party like it's 1999” and...

Each year at about this time, organisations are planning, drafting and finalizing budgets. They do this as in the world of business, we all need a budget…or do we? Let’s take a look at the recent Federal Budget which was a compilations of funded actions based on wildly...

I am glad I chose Social Work and am privileged to have worked with so many people and their communities. I’ve worked in nursing homes, “group homes” for people with disability, youth detention centres, jails, hospitals, people’s homes and “the streets”. I did my work...

With so much talk about change, NDIS, person-centred planning, strategy, planning and the like, one of the core concepts that has been overlooked is that of risk. By risk, we are not talking about operational risk, but strategic risk and very specifically, risk appetit...

Councils across NSW are considering their options after a government-commissioned report found nearly two thirds were “unfit”, marking them as possible candidates for forced mergers.

The Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (Ipart) recently released a report that...