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The International Edition Partnering With EDITION 42 APR-JUN 15 THE INTERNATIONAL EDITION PARTNERING WITH GOVERNMENT Debra Tippett Michael Brennan They have deep Our multi-disciplinary Government team of 300 lawyers, drawn understanding of the David Crane from all of our practice areas, delivers leading business and industry edge solutions to Commonwealth, regulatory framework, as well as State and as well as attention to Territory governments. detail and the ability to work seamlessly as a team across a variety of disciplines. They also Neal Parkinson Amanda Story have a strong focus on budget control and value for money. GOVERNMENT CATEGORY, AUSTRALIA Andrew Gill Nevin Agnew CHAMBERS ASIA PACIFIC 2015 15 0014 Mark Treffers Alice McCormick EDITOR Ron Dent CONTENTS EDITORIAL, PRODUCTION AND COVER: BADGING Australia’s place in the world Public Administration Today is ADVERTISING MANAGER Sally Woolford ©iStockphoto.com @pagadesign published by IPAA ACT Division DESIGN EnvyUs Design, Suzanne Green EDITORIAL & PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Faceworks Marketing Solutions PRINTER Finsbury Green 06 35 46 This edition saved 1,389kgs of greenhouse (CO2) emissions compared to a non-green printer PUBLISHER (COPYRIGHT) Copyright for published articles (including digital) resides with Public Administration Today and its publisher, IPAA ACT Division, CEO Drew Baker. After publication, authors may reproduce their articles in other forms with appropriate acknowledgement. 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Notwithstanding the unhappy situation, they joked as they made their way down from the front (Australian War Memorial: 1915, Ottoman Empire: another word’ Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli) Five score and women, living and dead, who have devotion – that they shall not have died years ago, come struggled and sacrificed to keep alight the in vain – and that government of the November, our torch of freedom, including those brave people, by the people, for the people, forefathers sailed souls at Charlie Hebdo whose lives shall not perish from the earth. forth from this were stolen for daring to speak This edition of Today is continent to freely by murderous fanatics dedicated to freedom and defend the liberty posing as men of piety. especially to the men and on which this The world will little note, nor 272 women who, internationally, newest of nations was founded. long remember what is said WORDS work for those elected Now we are engaged in a great global battle, here, but it can never forget officials who are charged testing whether this nation, or any other so what they did in the name of with protecting it. freedom. 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