A new addition to “Lessons learned in the public domain” provides an interesting reflection on Government learning lessons…
In December 2013 the Australian Government established the Royal Commission into the Home Insulation Program led by Mr Ian Hanger AM QC, which reported to the Government in September 2014. The Government asked Professor Peter Shergold AC to lead an independent review of Government processes for the development and implementation of large public programmes and projects. Professor Shergold’s report, Learning from Failure: Why large government policy initiatives have gone so badly wrong in the past and how the chances of success in the future can be improved, was presented to Government in August 2015.
Learning from Failure: why large government policy initiatives have gone so badly wrong in the past and how the chances of success in the future can be improved
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- Terms of reference
- The future: Avoiding repetition of failure
- Executive summary: 28 proposals for improvement
- Reflections on failure
- Lessons from the past
- A: Providing robust advice
- B: Supporting decision making
- C: Creating a positive risk culture
- D: Enhancing project management
- E: Opening up the APS
- F: Embracing adaptive government
- The future: Learning from mistakes
- Acronyms
- Appendix


