The enabling state : people before bureaucracy. /

Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Part A : Introduction -- 1. Master to servant state / Peter Botsman -- 2. The new economy and the new politics / Mark Latham -- Part B : Enabling education -- Policies for a knowledge nation / Mark Latham -- 4. Independent schools, community management and innovation / Peter Botsman -- Part C : Enabling social policy -- 5. Wise transformations : employment, training and the intermediate labour market / Simon Rennie, Abigail Howard and Alan Sinclair -- 6. Social wage cooperatives / Peter Botsman -- 7. Australia's new health care challange: enabling good health through social entrepreneurship / Peter Botsman -- Part D : Enabling communities -- 8. Making welfare work / Mark Latham -- 9. Rebuilding indigenous communities / Noel Pearson -- 10. Marking dinosaurs dance : social entrepreneurship and civic action / Andrew Mawson -- 11. Putting the mutual into mutual obligations / Peter Botsman -- Part E : Enabling governance -- 12. Beating the bureaucracy: humanising modern government / Gary L. Sturgess -- 13. Government by discussion / Glyn Davis -- 14. The moral foundations of government / Mark Latham -- Part F : Conclusion -- 15. The enabling state: from government to governance / Mark Latham.