Two steps forward, one step back: the ongoing failure to capture synergies in natural resource management (Australia)

The Australian political narrative – exemplified by Megalogenis (2012) and Keane and Razer (2014) – commonly holds that transformational policy reform has become too difficult, that vested interests have become too powerful, and that governments are less bold and less able in the 24-hour media cycle to make and sustain a compelling case for a fundamental reform.