Now I am a great fan of the South Australian "Thinkers in Residence" program. It is a great programme that is designed to bring new ideas and best practice to the state across a range of disciplines. Basically, it seeks to bring international experts to Adelaide for short periods of time and tasks them with generating new ideas across a particular subject area.
The latest thinker is Professor Fred Wegman - a recognised expert on road safety - he will contribute to a new South Australian road safety strategy.
This is a fantastic appointment - finally we might get to inject some clever ideas into the road safety programme and add value to the current thinking that concentrates solely on a "speed kills" and "alcohol is evil" strategy. With any luck we will end up with a South Australian road safety strategy that is based on science and evidence and which actually works.
Or at least I hope so - because if South Australia can be encouraged to finally move to an "international best practice" model then there is some hope that the other states can be encouraged to also sign up.
Now while I admire the "Thinker" programme I am a little concerned with how it is administered. Of the eight jobs that are listed on the contacts page of their web site - here - 100% are filled by females. This is a bit rich. How can it be that there are no males in South Australia who are capable of performing these roles? What happened to the concept of gender balance?
It's actually a feature of the SA public sector - there are little enclaves scattered throughout the public service that are owned and operated by females - exclusively. Now I do like females but do you think there is a chance that this is a little bit out of control?
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