Mike Brown

Why “unfit to govern” is such a thing now

by Mike Brown

It has been a year scarred by deeply visceral events – record bushfires and a global pandemic, confronting conceptual assaults, the peddling of grand fantasies, dangerous untruths, and toxic politics. How can we all emerge better and stronger from these encounters?  The government-sponsored pitch for Mattias Corman to become the next head of the OECD […]

Five ways to achieve a post-pandemic governance epiphany

by Mike Brown

Metaphorically, the pandemic has cast a very oblique light across our apparently flat policy terrain. Many seemingly solid and settled policy positions are now revealed as wafer-thin ideologies. Deep unbridgeable chasms between implacably opposed world views now separate what used to seem like mild differences of opinion. Some even consider that the pandemic has triggered […]