Given its role as a grassroots social movement organization and not a professional association (which can be more closely aligned with governments), we hypothesized that the CCAAC would take a conflictual approach to the federal government's policy initiative.
"When you have corporations of that size so closely aligned with governments that you really don't know the difference – that's a different form of government," Thomas told me.
And it is a tragedy that media outlets aligned with governments are now accusing the journalists uncovering these abuses of "lethal irresponsibility".
Wolfgang Büchner, editor-in-chief of Der Spiegel in Germany, said: "It is a tragedy that media outlets aligned with governments are now accusing the journalists uncovering these abuses of 'lethal irresponsibility'.
The main thrust of this agenda is that more and more money should support government development strategies and be aligned to government systems.
Salaries for the mentors were aligned with government pay scales so the state government could easily absorb them in the future if it chose to sustain the mentoring program.
The Programme needs to be institutionalised as a Government responsibility, especially since a key finding noted in Chapter 7 is that it is closely aligned to Government plans and provides a robust framework and platform for improving school effectiveness.
His pitch for the job could not be clearer or more neatly aligned with government thinking.
"I think when a community is aligned with government at many different levels, amazing things could happen despite the economy," she said.
But this runs the risk that the goals and messages of civil-society actors are often not aligned with government policies.
It found that between the 2009 and 2015 financial years, an investment of $35.2m from government and third parties generated $96.5m worth of social, economic, cultural and environmental outcomes, and that 28 of 35 program outcomes directly aligned with government strategic priorities.
