This report argues that a new vision for funding health in Australia based on the Singapore model could be achieved by applying the principle of choice for those who wish for an alternative to Australia’s taxpayer-funded, universal health care system. Abstract Singapore’s distinctive health funding and service provision arrangements have delivered comparable First World standards...

This article describes the design during 2013 of a model and implementation principles of a leadership and capability development and deployment (LCDD) model for the state services system. In this process, an initial prototype model was developed to describe a desired future state. It was informed by the best traditions of state services leadership development...

Around the World: The Evolution of Teaching as a Profession proposes that to lift students’ academic achievement, New Zealand needs to take heed of how countries with high performing education systems have turned teaching into a profession. The report came out just one week after the results of the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment...

The purpose of this paper is to discuss smaller scale Australian Water's Edge Public Spaces (WEPS) and connect these to the outcomes of a pilot study that compared three WEPS: in Sydney, Hong Kong and Singapore, at different stages of their lifecycle.

Today’s centre of high performance in school education is East Asia. Four of the world's five highest-performing systems are Hong Kong, Korea, Shanghai and Singapore, according to OECD’s 2009 PISA assessments of students. In Shanghai, the average 15-year old mathematics student is performing at a level two to three years above his or her counterpart...