Mark Considine

Dec 6, 2023 | grattan.edu.au | Anna Funder |Ellen Van Neerven |Mark Considine |Micheline Lee

Each year Grattan Institute selects its best books of the past 12 months – recommended reading for the Prime Minister, and indeed all Australians, over the summer holidays.

Jun 22, 2023 | insidestory.org.au | Mark Considine

The main purpose of government is to promote the welfare of its people. Other things matter, too, but without this core value government moves from being the solution to becoming the problem. That is exactly what has happened in many of Australia’s social services. In key fields — childcare, aged care, employment services and the NDIS — what we have is not a quality system of care but a disordered ecology of self-directed providers and distant regulators.