The future of secrecy
Starting today and for the next two weeks, The Interpreter will host an online discussion on the theme of government secrecy. This is a perennial topic of dispute in democratic societies — I think Max...
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Cut secrecy down to a minimum
Paul Monk is a founder, Director and Principal Consultant of Austhink Consulting.Secrecy is a kind of dead weight on sound and accountable government, in much the same way that excessive and...
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Less secrecy means better government
Paul Monk is Director and Principal Consultant of Austhink Consulting. Part one of this post here.That secrecy has been increasing decade by decade despite repeated, even official calls for the trend...
View ArticleIncentives for secrecy
Paul Monk refers early on in his first post on excessive government secrecy to the fact that 'the actors best placed to change the rules have strong perverse incentives for keeping them as they are.'...
View ArticleReader ripostes: Researching secrecy
Below, a comment from David Gizzi, but first, Alex Burns writes:Austhink's Paul Monk raises several important points in his posts to Lowy's debate on excessive government secrecy. I discovered Monk's...
View ArticleLike to attend our Secrecy Forum?
Our Unisys Forum on the Future of Secrecy, which kicked off on Monday, is gathering pace, and I'll have further substantive contributions on The Interpreter soon.But first, I would like to get...
View ArticleReader riposte: Secrecy in an open society
Daniel Baldino, a Senior Lecturer at Notre Dame University and editor of Democratic Oversight of Intelligence Services, writes:The world of intelligence is closely intertwined in official secrecy....
View ArticleReader riposte: Secrecy and FoI
Peter Timmins writes:Numerous reports and inquiries have confirmed that we have a culture of secrecy in many areas of government. While there have been some positive reforms since 2009, we have a long...
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9/11 and the new breed of journalist
The attacks of 9/11 brought about an almost instant reordering of newsroom hierarchies.Old South Asia hands who knew their way around Afghanistan and Pakistan were suddenly in high demand. Former Kabul...
View ArticleReader riposte: Secrecy in the information age
Anna Madeleine Solar-Bassett writes:Social media is going to be a major issue of the secrecy debate moving forward. As Kony 2012 and Wikileaks show, governments that support open and relatively free...
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'Soft' secrecy in the media age
Nicholas Gruen is CEO of Lateral Economics and was Chair of the Government 2.0 Task Force.I recently took my son to the stage play (pictured) of the TV show Yes, Prime Minister. One could predict the...
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Secrecy in the age of WikiLeaks
Steve Vinsik is vice president and partner in Global Security Solutions for Unisys Corporation, sponsor of the Lowy Institute's 'The Future of Secrecy' forum.Open, but secure. That is the new approach...
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The government abuse of secrecy
Major Gen (Retd) Jim Molan is author of Running the War in Iraq.There is a need for secrecy and there is abuse of secrecy. There is a lot to be protected and some good reasons for protecting it. One of...
View ArticleSecrecy and transparency in war
The piece by Nicholas Gruen that we published yesterday was cross-posted on Club Troppo, Nick's regular blog haunt, and it's worth pointing to the subsequent discussion in the comments thread.In...
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The secrets economy
In the twin realms of politics and government, secrets are a tradable commodity. In this market, knowledge really is power – or a function and a facet of power. To use an economic framework: secrecy,...
View ArticleSecrecy and freedom (of information)
If secrets are government's attempt at monopoly, then FoI is about liberalisation and opening the market. The FoI experience in Australia illustrates why free trade so often wins in theory but has a...
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Malcolm Turnbull on secrecy
Last Friday The Interpreter's Future of Secrecy discussion culminated in a live event in Canberra. I hope some of the presentations made at the event will be released shortly, but meantime, Malcolm...
View ArticleThe future of secrecy
Starting today and for the next two weeks, The Interpreter will host an online discussion on the theme of government secrecy. This is a perennial topic of dispute in democratic societies — I think Max...
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Cut secrecy down to a minimum
Paul Monk is a founder, Director and Principal Consultant of Austhink Consulting.Secrecy is a kind of dead weight on sound and accountable government, in much the same way that excessive and...
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Less secrecy means better government
Paul Monk is Director and Principal Consultant of Austhink Consulting. Part one of this post here.That secrecy has been increasing decade by decade despite repeated, even official calls for the trend...
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