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When bureaucratic expertise comes under attack
Politicians need expertise to make public policy and public servants are one of the principal providers of knowledge. Yet what constitutes relevant knowledge and skills for bureaucrats is regularly co...
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Making up for Lost Time? First Peoples-State Treaty-Making in Victoria
In 2016, Victoria became the first government in Australia to formally commit to a treaty process with First Nations peoples. However, the historical absence of treaty in Australia meant the concept o...
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Closing the Gap Refresh: Incorporating First Nations Voices in Policy Design
In 2008, the Council of Australian Governments reached an agreement to work with Indigenous communities on ‘Closing the Gap’ in Indigenous disadvantage. Over the years, however, it became clear that t...
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Building Policy Capability
An effective policy system depends on robust policy capability. An article in Policy Design and Practice discusses the key dimensions of policy capability. It lays out a capability infrastructure that...
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The inherent vices of policy design
An inherent vice is the quality of any substance or object which causes it to self-destruct, whether quickly or slowly. The inherent vices of policy making are the factors which contribute to policy v...
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Cave Creek: a national tragedy (A) 2004-2.1
On Friday 28 April 1995, Department of Conservation (DOC) Chief Executive Bill Mansfield took an urgent phone call. It told him that one of the department’s viewing platforms on the West Coast of the ...
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When public administration and politics meet turbulence
Turbulence describes a world where public managers must deal with multiple and simultaneous changes, each demanding immediate attention. An article in Public Administration reconceptualises governance...
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Reinventing public sector performance management
An e-chapter in the Handbook of Performance Management in the Public Sector argues performance management practices are too often underpinned by assumptions that do not serve a contemporary public ser...
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Making wellbeing policies effective
A new free ebook from the London School of Economics explores the wellbeing approach to public policy. This makes wellbeing as an explicit goal and puts people and their wellbeing at the centre of pol...
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LGBTIQA+ and the Law: The Importance of Partnership in Improving Inclusion for t...
Legal Aid Western Australia works to serve the community through legal education and representation and in 2020, after being approached by LGBTIQA+ youth advocacy group the Youth Pride Network, it dec...
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Fear and freedom during COVID-19
Australia’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been widely perceived as successful. However according to a paper in the Monash Bioethics Review, there are serious ethical challenges at its heart. T...
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The future of working from home in the public sector
The COVID-19 pandemic created a working from home experiment for the public sector. A paper in the Australian Journal of Public Administration examines what might happen next as countries move towards...
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Shaping a Strategic Centre
Central agencies are moving to exert more deliberate, specific influence over the long-term trajectory of government whether through whole of government plans or more interventionist approaches, yet t...
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The future of behavioural tools in public policy
While there is increasing awareness and use of behaviourally informed approaches and tools in public policy, there is limited systematic evidence on developments across the world and across sectors. A...
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Transforming public policy with engagement
Many people remain invisible in policymaking processes. An article in Policy & Politics demonstrates the transformative potential of recognising these ‘invisible’ people as legitimate and effective ac...
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Governing fast and slow: strategies for dealing with dual crises
Today the world is confronted with dual crises: creeping and acute threats unfolding simultaneously. In this environment governments must respond effectively to acute crises while not compromising the...
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Joined-up government: what works and when
The question of how public sector agencies can best work together is central to tackling the most complex public policy challenges. Using a range of Aotearoa New Zealand case studies, a new e-book ide...
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Arrangements for facilitating trans-Tasman government institutional co-operation
This paper has its beginnings in the increasing levels of co-operation between the Australian and New Zealand Governments. The aim of the paper is to develop options to support trans-Tasman co-operati...
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Public service renewal: Reform, tradition and challenge
This paper is based on a presentation by former ANZSOG Chair Peter Shergold to the Canada School of Public Service in 2007. It presents insights into the similarities and differences between Australia...
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Next up: Putting practitioners and users at the centre of innovation in the publ...
Those who work in the public services, and more particularly those who use them, are becoming increasingly convinced of the growing need for innovation—that is, fresh thinking that works and creates n...