Recently our national government announced changes to rental laws that will address a rental problem that is causing pain and hardship to people.
As a response to a real problem, that is clearly good governance, but is it good leadership?
In this case, I would suggest it is neutral on the leadership issue, as it does not directly act to change the attitudes and lack of skills of people that enabled the problem to occur, but it is indirectly having an impact on those.
Examples of what I consider to be both good leadership and good governance are the introduction of car seatbelts and breath testing, and banning smoking - all of which required changes to societal values in order to be effective, which was achieved.
Bad leadership and bad governance has been illustrated by the ban on Equal Marriage and the use of a postal survey to fix that harm (with the arguments that effectively supported religious bigots forcibly imposing their warped perceptions on the rest of Australia being particularly obnoxious), every past practice that has required a subsequent apology (although this apology was a brilliant example of good leadership and good governance, and this was similar), and the failure to address the landlordism created and sustained by various tax breaks in Australia - which has created our current housing crisis (and, on similar problems, see here, here, and here).
The Voice Referendum started off with good governance (addressing real problems) and good leadership, but Dutton withdrawing support (bad leadership and bad governance) empowered the racists, and it was lost.
Prime Minister Albanese reversing the good leadership (values ahead of those of religious/cultural bigots, and thus would require education/change) of LGBTQIASB+ supportive ALP policies was bad (actively harmful) leadership and arguably maybe good politics, with the subsequent backflip lifting it into competent governance but with considerable political damage leaving it as, at best, neutral leadership (see also here).
The recent overturning of a successful negotiation on environmental matters was bad governance, bad leadership, and arguable with regards to political votes.
And that is when the problem of good governance is most likely to become a façade for good leadership - when decisions are based on votes or economic matters - as such arguments typically, in recent decades, have favoured the ultra-wealthy and corporations at the expense of everyday or ordinary people.
We need politicians with good skills/capabilities at governance combined with the principled commitment to progressive values that enables good leadership - and we clearly have several of those in the current national cabinet (e.g., see here, here, here).
More are needed there, and elsewhere in life.
But above all else, we need people to recognise and accept that efforts towards change (especially education and debate) need to start early - well before, for instance, elections ...
Possible flaws
Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider:
- there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”;
- I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
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