Business and the Whitlam government
In: Politics: Australasian Political Studies Association journal, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 225-231
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In: Politics: Australasian Political Studies Association journal, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 225-231
In: Politics: Australasian Political Studies Association journal, Band 12, Heft 1, S. 136-141
In: Pacific community: an Asian quarterly review, Band 6, Heft 3, S. 393-406
ISSN: 0030-8633
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In: Australian journal of public administration, Band 36, Heft 2, S. 133-158
ISSN: 1467-8500
Abstract: Following the election of the Whitlam government in December 1972 changes in the composition, work and style of ministers' offices were substantial. Evaluations of the emerging pattern conflicted, often quite sharply. This paper surveys the pattern of staffing introduced by Labor and examines in particular the roles of ministerial officers as political and policy advisers. The paper also discusses recent experiences with ministerial staff in the United Kingdom and Canada, and makes brief reference to the use of ministerial staff by the Fraser government. Assessing the effectiveness of ministerial advisers is not easy. No straight forward measures of effectiveness exist. It is argued that, despite the ambitions of some ministerial staff during the Whitlam government, the role of ministerial advisers was essentially limited and confined. Ministers found them useful but few found them overwhelmingly so. While the Fraser government has reduced the number and visibility of ministerial staff it has retained the institutional underpinning of Labor's system. In the search for ways of assisting political parties to govern and to respond to changing situations, it is likely that ministerial staff with ability to advise on policy will receive further attention in the future.
In: Thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, Band 7, S. 151-158
ISSN: 0725-5136
The failure of & prospects for the Labor Party in Australia are discussed by analyzing its Medibank Health Insurance program, which was dismantled subsequent to the Labor Government's dismissal in 1975. The demise of the Medibank program is seen as a reflection of the overall failure of the government to adopt a sufficiently radical stance in mobilizing PO behind its policies. Instead, it pursued a consensus policy that vainly tried to unite broad sectors of the public & the medical profession behind the program. If Labor is to have a future in Australia, it must establish an agenda where participation is the first priority & the people are offered conditions of life & services that they themselves can administer locally. S. Karganovic.
In: Thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 151-158
ISSN: 1461-7455, 0725-5136
In: Politics: Australasian Political Studies Association journal, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 15-23
ISSN: 0032-3268
World Affairs Online
In: Politics: Australasian Political Studies Association journal, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 15-23
In: Foreign affairs, Band 55, S. 854-872
ISSN: 0015-7120
In: Labour history: a journal of labour and social history, Heft 26, S. 102
ISSN: 1839-3039
In: The round table: the Commonwealth journal of international affairs, Band 64, Heft 253, S. 65-83
ISSN: 1474-029X
In: Australian quarterly: AQ, Band 47, Heft 2, S. 36
ISSN: 1837-1892
In: Australian journal of public administration, Band 36, Heft 2, S. 159-167
ISSN: 1467-8500
Abstract: The ministerial staff of the present Liberal‐National Country Party government are compared with those of the Labor government between 1972 and 1975. The most striking contrasts between the two groups is that the Coalition staffers are fewer in number (with fewer "political" types) and less "visible" than their Labor counterparts. They also intrude less into the workings of departments and report better relationships with public servants. There is thus a weakening of the representative and party political elements in the Federal government which were built up under the Labor party, and an opening of the way for a possible reassertion of the bureaucratic element. Although Coalition staffers differ from Labor staffers in other respects (for instance more come from private industry and private practice, fewer from journalism), on a number of criteria they have much in common. They are mostly male, in their twenties or thirties, mostly graduates, disproportionately from non‐government schools, with about half from inside and half from outside the public service.
In: Politics: Australasian Political Studies Association journal, Band 12, Heft 2, S. 104-115