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When the new Prime Minister of Australia and his new cabinet ministers after being sworn in on September 21, all started using the word "innovation" twice or three times in their first media appearances, my ears pricked up decisively. Was it possible Australia was on the verge of finding the beginnings of a new national voice or better still returning to its deep heart, the very DNA that founded the country - innovation and adaptation - in order to survive? The Prime Minister's uses of the word "innovation" were well nuanced, offering the layman a simple argument for its need, giving his message a gravitas I have not heard from Federal Governments of either persuasion in the last decade or so. Innovation is extremely difficult in organisations, let alone in government and public services, especially with the three tiered systems of government that Australia has. Nevertheless any government that builds its political narrative around a national conversation based on innovation, where ideas


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