Not OTS but better governance by government and politicians needed

Comments on Ziggy Switkowski “Take politics out of assessment”, 9/02/2011, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/take-politics-out-of-assessment/story-e6frg6zo-1226002437243

While it may be attempting to establish a similar organisation to OTA model, we should realise that there is a significant degree of public goods nature of those agencies and it may not necessary to have such an agency in Australia after all. One can use those public goods when considering issues.

You have government departments. You have Productivity Commission. You have CSRIO and the alike. There are enough bureaucrats to do the things that Ziggy Switkowski argues for.

You don't need to inflate the bureaucratic agencies even further to make the government decision making more efficient!

The government has enough resources to make the right decisions if it so chooses. The problem is that many governments just don’t want to make the best decisions for the nation but for their own interests!

We have the Productivity Commission, but the government has chosen not to have the NBN studied! Was that because of lack of resources? Definitely not!

The real issue is to make the politicians work in the nation’s interests, not in their own interests!

How can we achieve that? That is what both politicians and the public should focus their attentions on.

We need to find better ways.