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Instead of contracting out and privatising public services, the government needs to build a new culture ofpublic sector innovation and entrepreneurship. All the Federal Labor politicians need to read the brilliant work of Mariana Mazzucato for policy guidance.

Highlighting some important and interesting state board roles that are available, but I am also expressing an emerging worry, because these are vital governance roles. The Arts sector is an incredibly important part of Ireland. As a vibrant and growing sector it needs, and deserves, good governance and the best people involved. Arts Council 2024 budget is circa €135m and it plays a hugely critical role. Encouraging anyone interested out there to look at the eight roles below, serving on the Arts Council. Candidates might see advertising eight roles, including Chair, from a maximum 13 Council positions as an opportunity or a potential problem. (If you apply you'll probably see it as an opportunity to make an impact!). To many who apply, I suspect, money will not be top of their list of considerations. And therein lies an emerging problem. I worry - as I have worried recently about a number of state boards - if the standard scale of state board fees set by government in 2010 (for the Arts Council being c.€9k pa for the Chair and c.€6k pa for the other members) is sufficient in 2024 to attract enough strong candidates? (Time will tell). But could the fees be limiting the number and range of people who might decide to give of their time and also to risk their professional good name by serving in non executive positions in the state sector? Could these fees also make it less likely that a meaningfully diverse range of people, voices and skills come forward, something to which the Arts Council and this Minister is committed. And is vitally important in this sector in particular. I guess only time will tell on that front - one to watch. If not borne out, then my concern will be unfounded in this case and it will be a happy day. Still I think it's time for a broader conversation, especially in the context of the kind of skills and diversity that government wants on important public sector boards and the time commitment and risks that board members take on. Closing date is Thursday 11th January at 15:00.

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A note of thanks and update of events for the weeks to come. https://conta.cc/3R4nunp

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Restich: the social summit, convened by CREATE STREETS and Labour Together is a great slice through all kinds of activism in the field of social and physical regeneration. I am so pleased to join a session on the role of heritage, stitching and retrofit asking why do we have to look back to move forward? My thoughts… We HAVE to reign in sprawl, allow towns to become more themselves as they grow. And places don’t become themselves by accident. Yes, there are local materials but also a history of crazy characters. It was always tough to fund development and there are incredible stories of bankruptcy along the way. Those who glorified their home towns, delivering philanthropic projects, and responding to frequent changes in fashion, had great tenacity. It feels as if the last fifty years of building what -people-want, housebuilder architecture, is stuck in its own cul de sac. Houses feel accidental and placeless, not responding in anyway to the climate challenges and connectivity needed to make genuine neighbourhoods. We can build new places if they are dense and benefit from our instinctive and collective knowledge of how to live. Excited to join this discussion!

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Earlier today, I wrote a piece on my personal page with some personal reflections on the appropriateness or otherwise of 26th January, as Australia's "national day". I've long held the view - many years before I became aware of the feelings of Australia's First Peoples about the appropriateness of the date - that using the anniversary of the foundation of Sydney (which, claims that it actually represents the anniversary of the creation of Australian citizenship in 1948 notwithstanding, is what the vast majority of Australians think that the 26th January commemorates) as a celebration of Australia as a nation is a bad choice. It reinforces what I've long felt is an excessively Sydney-centric interpretation of Australia's post-1778 history and culture. Most nations who have 'national days' - and especially those nations who were once colonies of other nations - have as their national days, a day which their citizens identify as symbolizing them ceasing to be a colony, rather than of becoming one, as the 26th January does. To the many people who I know will disagree with me about this, I want to say, I love this country as much as you do, and I'm no less proud of being an Australian than you are. But I don't need to commemorate the founding of Sydney to prove it: and I don't see why I should be expected to. The article is also now on my website, here: https://lnkd.in/gHwtpkN5 - along with a map of 'Australia' that omits NSW, Queensland and Victoria, rather than Tasmania (as all too many maps purporting to be of 'Australia' still do). It was of course drawn up by Abel Tasman, the first European to "discover" Tasmania (or Van Diemen's Land, as he called it), as well as New Zealand - 128 years before Captain James Cook, aided by Tasman's maps, "discovered" the site of present-day Sydney Airport, an event which the Sydney-centric view of Australian history still regards as the [European] "discovery" of Australia. Thankyou Ratih Luhur for finding and posting this map.

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