Whiskers
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Whiskers - the problem I have about all the committees that Kevin has established, does not relate to the waste of money (although there is that). My problem is that just by announcing all these enquiries and establishing all these committees - nothing is actually getting fixed. It looks great on the 6:00 news, "Kevin Rudd is to get tough on grocery prices", "Kevin Rudd will look into petrol price discrepancies" etc etc etc. The media lap it up, the voters lap it up and Kev looks like the messiah. Setting up a "committee to investigate" is a type of poor mans policy. A stop gap designed to plug a problem - and there are a heap of stop gaps required in Labor's policies.
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Duckman
Hi Duckman
Well, if you don't have a committee to consider things, what are the options?
Busines does not invest in 'ideas' ad hoc. They engage committees and consultants etc to research, test, trial, get feedback, do budgets etc before making a decision to develop a major project or make big changes to proceedures.
One option that many Queenslders don't like is the Beattie style of forcing the leaders view on his own cabinet and the electorate... akin to a dictatorship.
On the weekend I saw somewhere on the TV about the downside of multitasking. Apparently Microsoft were one of the first to adopt multitasking, but their research has now found that it leads to too much loss of productivity.
The industry and community organisations that I have been involved in all have committees or representatives to delegate leg work functions too and report back to the leadership for decision making.
Provided the committee hearings and results are open to the public, then I believe it makes for more transparent and effective government.
You may need to clarify what you mean by 'poor mans policy'. I would have thought that not having committees to properly investigate issues and changes was a poor mans policy... at least in the sense that you may not make the best decisions based on all the options eg Work Choices, Iraq.