May 2024
How Harvard’s leadership rules are helping train Australia’s MPs
Since 2019, groups of aspiring government ministers at the state and federal level have been undertaking specialist training programs, designed to improve standards.
- Tom McIlroy
March 2023
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- Political leadership
Penny Wong and Helen Haines win political leadership prize
The foreign minister and the independent MP have won the 2022 McKinnon Prize in their respective categories for improving Australian politics at home and abroad.
- Tom McIlroy
October 2021
National cabinet failing on border bans, vaccines: poll
Nearly two-thirds of Australians believe the states and the federal government haven’t co-operated well during the pandemic, a new poll shows.
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- Tom McIlroy
October 2020
Half of Aussies can't identify a positive political moment in 2020
A new poll shows Australians rate the response to the COVID-19 pandemic as a leading political achievement, but political engagement remains discouragingly low.
- Tom McIlroy
September 2020
Watch: Gladys Berejiklian and Sally Capp on leading through the crisis
McKinnon Prize winners Gladys Berejiklian and Sally Capp discuss the qualities of good political leadership with political editor Phillip Coorey
- Alana Piper
Berejiklian calls on states to reform Team Australia
The NSW Premier questioned why some states and territories get equal bargaining power while her state and Victoria do the nation's heavy lifting.
- Finbar O'Mallon
August 2020
In times of crisis, true leadership is revealed
Join Gladys Berejiklian, Sally Capp and Phillip Coorey as we talk the future of political leadership.
- Alana Piper