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Tom Bentley

Policy Adviser, Government of Victoria

Tom Bentley will be Executive Director for policy and cabinet for the Premier of Victoria, Australia from September 2006. He was Director of Demos from 1999-2006.

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• A sacred union? In the January/February edition of Atlantic Monthly the New America Foundationhas collaborated for the second year with the magazine to produce an alternative 'state of the nation' issue. The idea is that in contrast to President Bush's euphemistic address, given in January, leading wonks produce a more genuine assessment of where American society is and the real challenges facing it. For me it brings to mind Demos's 'manifesto for the election after next', published ahead of the 1997... continue reading Posted by Tom Bentley on 8th February 2004 Comments (1)
• Catching a cold Trying to track down a copy of Seth Godin's Unleashing the Ideavirus at short notice, I spent an unhappy half hour talking to Waterstone's braches all over London looking for a copy I could pick up on the way home (result: they have five copies in Brussels) , before realising that an author preaching the virtues of uncontrolled lateral communication might well practice what he preaches. Amazon.com trails the paperback version of the book as 'the most downloaded e-book in history', and sure... continue reading Posted by Tom Bentley on 18th August 2003 Comments (5)

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