Securitisation: How to magnify problems rather than solve them
When governments have little idea of what constitutes a wicked problem, and even less idea of how to deal with it, their default position is to ‘securitise’ a problem – turning it into a problem to be solved by law enforcement, military and para-military methods.
The perils of privatisation and outsourcing.
Waste of government money is the inevitable consequence of government’s funding the private sector to deliver a public good. Continue reading
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CAREERS: Customer service minister Victor Dominello said the funds would be used over three years to create an ‘army’ of experts. |
It was the threat of Soviet invasion, not the bombs that drove Japan’s surrender.
The 75th Pacific War end anniversary has revived once again the debate over whether the US in 1945 had to resort to nuclear bombings to force Japan’s surrender. The global anti-nuclear movement has long used the horror of those bombings to promote its cause. Continue reading