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      • Citizen Engagement & Policy Learning
      • Forming, storming, norming and performing
      Public Sphere #2: Government 2.0
    1. Is there an Australian political culture?
      • In the Dixonian tradition, political stability is achieved by ‘self-restraint in the interests of constitutionalism… when “reinforced by an informed and vigilant citizenry”’ (Saunders & Le Roy 2003: 9; De Percy 2004: 9)
    2. Is there an Australian political culture?
      • In the 1970s, Australians were viewed as ‘not much interested in politics and displayed low rates of political participation’.
      • However: ‘One cannot be sure if that Australia has yet acquired a demonstrably civic culture’
      • (Emy & Hughes 1993: 122)
    3. Is there an Australian political culture?
      • ‘ National opinion polls tell us that public trust in Australia’s governments and our political leadership is now at an all-time low’.
      • (Uhr 2005)
    4. Why is the political culture important?
      • As we move to a technology-driven, more open society:
      • ‘ [T]he operation and viability of any given political system depends also on the political culture which underlies it’ (Emy & Hughes 1993: 113)
      • Which leads me to some observations about an emerging online Australian ‘civic culture’
    5. Some Observations
      • An underlying Australian civic culture which raises some important questions:
        • Are Australians averse to conflict, generally?
        • Does Australia really have a democratic political culture?
      • Explosion of conflict on educational, community and media participatory forums
      • Tendency for ‘knee-jerk’ reactions from authorities
    6. Policy Learning
      • In its broadest meaning, to borrow from Howlett & Ramesh (2003: 220):
      • Policy learning ‘includes both the intended and unintended… consequences of policy-making activities’ and is ‘an iterative process of active learning on the part of policy actors’
      • Learning (and conflict) will become more intense as the number of actors increases
    7. What will be our approach to ‘Netiquette’?
      • In light of our ‘civic culture’, what is our capacity to ‘learn’ through a process which essentially involves ‘conflict’?
    8. Understanding new media ‘policy learning’
      • Forming: ‘Public Sphere’, Open Forum, ABC
      • Storming: Follow up debates, research, reactions
      • Norming: Establishing the ‘rules of the game’
      • Performing: Obtaining the benefits
    9. One step away from politics?
      • Specialist online policy research centres
      • We need decentralised spaces to experiment
      • Emerging models:
      • Outsourcing citizen engagement
      • Education will play a primary role
      • Many barriers to the legitimacy of social media
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