Smart Seeds - Cultivating Innovation for Infrastructure “innovation encourages risk, creativity and embracing uncertainty” - by Timothy Leavold Smart Seeds attempts to add some spark to imagining future infrastructure. The 10-week program encourages groups of young professionals to develop innovative solutions to a series of infrastructure challenges. Noetic’s [...]

Royal Commission Into Youth Justice – Now The Work Begins The Royal Commission has delivered a comprehensive report with extensive recommendations. The recommendations are predictable as to what is needed – a focus on early intervention and diversion with detention as a last resort. Successfully implementing the 226 recommendations is [...]

Looking Beyond Response The United States and the Caribbean have recently experienced a series of unprecedented hurricanes The response to the devastation has generally been satisfactory A ‘business as usual’ approach to the recovery effort cannot be taken - by Peter Murphy The southern United States and the Caribbean [...]

Youth Justice – Getting it Right The publication of children’s names and photographs reaffirms the importance of the Royal Commission’s work Children are not “little adults” and require different approaches to adults in the justice system Rehabilitation is essential - by Peter Murphy The recent revelation by the ABC that [...]