We focused specifically on the issues of expert participation, consensus development, agreement across panels, and participant experiences.
While Labor struck an agreement with the Coalition over the issue of expert advice, and agreed to tougher penalties for the illegal hunting of dugongs, it sided with the Greens to oppose the government's bid to devolve environmental approval powers to the states.
As Congress and the White House move on to lobbying reform and trade issues, a variety of experts are quietly noting that the problems that prompted the health care struggle are still, ahem, very much here".
Public officials, policy experts, investors, industry executives, students and eager citizens will gather to listen to and discuss America's most pressing and compelling energy and climate issues with panels of experts and innovators, teed up by President Obama himself.
ON the issue of mergers, experts said that the Clinton administration was fairly lenient, using the same standards that existed under Presidents Reagan and Bush.
But even setting aside the issue of financing, experts on Medicare said that the added bureaucracy and application process the state programs require had shut out thousands of the elderly.
But this is a well-studied issue, and lots of experts are available to consult, interpret, or critique a splashy new finding -- such as those who recently commented for a similar article in the New York Times, or experts on discrimination issues.
Furthermore, there were marked differences across criminal, civil and custody cases with regards to the issues of how these experts were consulted and how their inputs utilized and appreciated by judges.
The Knight money will go toward paying citizens to take time to learn about issues from a panel of experts and deliberate with their peers.
We'll be discussing these issues with a panel of experts on Monday 12 October between 12 and 2pm.
