Adam Hannah

Polling data from Harris & Associates 1966. Q: Do you approve of what Freedom Riders are Doing? 22% approve 61%disapprove18%no opinion.

I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.

Spoiler alert: unsurprisingly, most have avoided engaging with key issues like over-responsiveness to ministers.

Highly recommend this new article from Daniel and Maria Maley – fascinating use of FOI requests to see if agencies have learned anything from Robodebt.

And here is the third article in our upcoming Robodebt SI, by my wonderful new colleague Sarah Ball. Sarah highlights a "culture of technical rationality" that has hollowed out expertise and ethical capacity in the APS and contributed to the "administrative evil" of Robodebt

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The government wants to contain NDIS growth. But ineligible people with disability also need support As the government seeks to moderate growth of the scheme budget, some NDIS participants are finding they are no longer eligible for the scheme.

Just out from me and @annekavanagh.bsky.social - The government wants to contain NDIS growth. But ineligible people with disability also need support theconversation.com/the-governme...

I bloğued: Accomplishments

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It would absolutely be Australian media all over if the first we heard of a major regional war between nuclear powers in the subcontinent was a bunch of Australian cricketers getting killed in it

What Can Be Learned at the Intersection of Crisis Management and Administrative Burdens? Evidence From a Systematic Review of the Governance of Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme During COVID-19 by Nicholas Bromfield and Gemma Carey in Social Policy and Administration

The abstract for the paper, reading: 'Crisis management is a field that evaluates and solves crisis and disaster responses. Whilst the effectiveness of the ideal-type parameters of crisis management and administration has been well examined, crisis responses create administrative burdens, particularly for marginalised groups, that must be navigated. This paper brings together the administrative burden and crisis response literature, presenting a systematic review of research into Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) during COVID-19 to answer: What burdens emerged during the COVID-19 response for people with a disability? Why did these burdens arise? Were they potentially avoidable? And who was harmed by these burdens? We find that NDIS workers and participants experienced considerable administrative burdens during the implementation of the Australian pandemic response and co-produced the limited successes found in NDIS COVID-19 measures. Consequently, we argue that a crisis equity agenda should anticipate multiplied burdens for marginalised populations, plan to mitigate them and prioritise and assist the most disadvantaged in navigating stressed policy systems during a crisis response.'

🚨 What can be learned at the intersection of crisis management & administrative burdens? is out now and open access! 🚨

Written with the v much missed @gemcarey.bsky.social.

For folks researching crisis management, admin burden, disability & the NDIS.

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Oh god if I have to write about more Morrison screw ups I'll go nuts

I can't say trawling the through the Royal Commission evidence has been fun – the writing has mostly been powered by fury at the betrayal of vulnerable people by public servants. But am glad to see these out in the world, our little contribution to try and make this isn't conveniently memory-holed.

Beyond Robodebt and towards restored trust: exploring universal basic income as a counterpoint for Australian women Australia's punitive social security system has long produced significant harms, particularly for women who are overrepresented as payment recipients due to economic marginalisation and structural ...

A second article from Zoe Staines is also available, on the capacity for UBI to offer a path away from gendered harms in our social security system.

The other articles in the SI will be out soon, each seeking to draw lessons from this shameful episode in Australian public policy.

Ignoring harm, saving face: non-knowledge, senior public servants and the Robodebt scheme Policy-making is well-known to be characterised by the boundedly rational and selective use of knowledge. However, the decision-making and knowledge manipulation which characterised the Robodebt sc...

New article (open access): Linda Botterill and I try to make sense of the strategically ignorant behaviour of senior leaders during Robodebt fiasco. This is part of an upcoming special issue co-edited by Sarah Ball and myself on the administrative and social harms of the scheme.

vaccines are maybe the coolest thing we ever figured out. they are more impressive by a wide margin than the moon landing. We have never done anything better with our capacity for genius

Honestly journos should be more discerning when getting expert quotes. I know they are just trying to fill space, but how does it help anyone to have a pull quote that gets the basic facts wrong?

Online radicalisation of elites is a significant and yet poorly understood aspect of contemporary politics.

Front cover of Cambridge Element 'Bad Public Policy: Malignity, Volatility and the Inherent Vices of Policymaking' by Howlett, Leong & Legrand.

New Cambridge Element 'Bad Public Policy: Malignity, Volatility and the Inherent Vices of Policymaking' by @howlettm.bsky.social, Ching Leong & @timlegrand.bsky.social out now.

Read #OpenAccess here - cup.org/44g9MFT

#cambridgeelements #politics

For those keeping track we now have 1 post presidency W for Obama

Time to start shifting international conferences away from the US. There’s plenty of other places with hotels and auditoriums.

Reciprocal tariffs, do it Albo. A can of American soda should cost like $12.

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1 more point on literacy: it's a disaster that the inner workings of the US government are incredibly complicated and illogical (filibuster, reconciliation, Electoral College, etc). parliaments work better bc dipshits can pick a party that sounds good and see that legibly translated into outcomes

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Losing track of my second gen iPod is one of my biggest (device) regrets. We had perfection and threw it all away for streaming.

The FT continues to be the anglosphere’s only good newspaper

What I'm saying is that blogs are back baby

Any outlet that describes a plan for ethnic cleansing as "audacious", or says Trump has "opened the throttle on blowing through apparent legal limits" (both NYT), is completely useless for understanding what is happening inside the US government.

Been noticing this also. Coverage from traditional news is often "look isn't this interesting!" no matter the topic. The best coverage, coming from non-traditional news or independent blogs, gives clear description what is happening, who is doing it, what the implications are. E.g:

Shock Doctrine in the metropole

The NYT and WaPo should be carrying 100 pieces like this.