Critical Reflections on Australian Public Policy

Details

ISBN (print):

9781921536700

ISBN (online):

9781921536717

Publication date:

May 2009

Imprint:

ANU Press

DOI:

http://doi.org/10.22459/CRAPP.05.2009

Series:

Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG)

Co-publisher:

The Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG)

Disciplines:

Arts & Humanities: History; Law; Social Sciences: Education & Training, Military & Defence Studies, Politics & International Studies, Social Policy & Administration

Countries:

Australia; North America: Canada

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• Preliminary Pages (PDF, 139KB)
• Foreword (PDF, 100KB) – John Wanna
• Contributors (PDF, 128KB)

Part 1: Reflections on Freedom

1. Federalism and the engine room of prosperity (PDF, 117KB) – The Hon Wayne Swan MP, Treasurer of Australia doi
2. Does federalism work? (PDF, 114KB) – The Hon John Brumby MP, Premier of Victoria doi
3. What has federalism ever done for us? (PDF, 114KB) – The Hon Anna Bligh MP, Premier of Queensland doi
4. Splicing the perspectives of the Commonwealth and states into a workable federation (PDF, 118KB) – Terry Moran AO doi
5. The reform imperative and Commonwealth–state relations (PDF, 125KB) – The Hon John Brumby MP, Treasurer of Victoria doi
6. Fostering creativity and innovation in cooperative federalism—the uncertainty and risk dimensions (PDF, 127KB) – Mark Matthews doi

Part 2. Reflections on policy and politics

7. Cabinet government: Australian style (PDF, 97KB) – Patrick Weller AO doi
8. Consumers and small business: at the heart of the Trade Practices Act (PDF, 136KB) – Graeme Samuel AO doi
9. Constitutional litigation and the Commonwealth (PDF, 108KB) – David Bennett AC QC doi
10. Evidence-based policy making: what is it and how do we get it? (PDF, 155KB) – Gary Banks AO doi

Part 3. Reflections on governance and leadership

11. The two cultures re-examined: a perspective on leadership and policy management in business and government (PDF, 143KB) – Philip M Burgess doi
12. Leading the Australian Defence Force (PDF, 115KB) – Air Chief Marshall Angus Houston AO AFC doi
13. Essential linkages—situating political governance, transparency and accountability in the broader reform agenda (PDF, 140KB) – Andrew Murray doi

Part 4. Reflections on adaptive change

14. Higher education: it’s time … (to change the policy framework) (PDF, 120KB) – Ian Chubb AC doi
15. Achieving a ‘conservation economy’ in indigenous communities: a Canadian model for greening and growing local economies (PDF, 121KB) – Ian Gill doi
16. From crystal sets to the double helix in one journalist’s lifetime (PDF, 137KB) – Peter Thompson doi