The Greater China Australia Dialogue on Public Administration

ANZSOG’s role in the Dialogue is part of its broader program of building links between Australia, New Zealand and Greater China, for the benefit of all jurisdictions involved. The current principals of the Dialogue are:

• Honorary Professor Andrew Podger AO, ANU;

• Professor Hon Chan, City University;

• Professor Tsai-tsu Su, National Taiwan University;

• Professor Jun Ma, Sun Yat Sen University; and

• Professor Meili Niu, Sun Yat Sen University.

Dialogue workshops have been held every year since 2011 at a range of universities across Greater China and at ANU, on public administration issues of shared interest. Workshop themes have been:

• 2011: Citizens-centred services;

• 2012: Inter-governmental relations;

• 2013: Human resources management;

• 2014: Decentralisation;

• 2015: Value for money: budgeting and financial management;

• 2016: Policy-making processes;

• 2017: Governance structures for performance and accountability;

• 2018: Urban governance;

• 2019: Taking advantage of new technology.

Papers from both the 2018 and 2019 Dialogues are available for free until the end of February 2021, through the Australian Journal of Social Issues and the Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration respectively.

The series of dialogues has allowed increasingly deep understanding of practice in each jurisdictions as well as shared exploration of current issues and challenges. Each workshop has involved scholars from universities across Greater China and Australia, and a selection of practitioners from the different jurisdictions. Amongst the Australian practitioners have been officials from a range of Australian departments and authorities (including PM&C, Treasury, Health, Finance, Infrastructure, APSC and ATO), Victoria and NSW and local governments in Victoria and Queensland.

This website aims to provide a one-stop-shop allowing access both to all published papers and to a selection of previously unpublished papers that contain information and analysis of continuing relevance to Australian and Chinese scholars and practitioners. The website contains papers from the workshops up to and including 2019.