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Party Rules: Dilemmas of Political Party Regulation in Australia
In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 63, Heft 3, S. 469-471
ISSN: 1467-8497
Party Rules: Dilemmas of Political Party Regulation in Australia. Edited by Anika Gauja and Marian Sawer (Canberra: ANU Press, 2017), pp. vii + 215. Nine Figures, 18 Tables. AU$34.99 (pb).
Abbott's Gambit: 2013 Australian Federal Election
In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 62, Heft 1, S. 147-148
ISSN: 1467-8497
Abbott's Gambit: 2013 Australian Federal Election. Edited by Carol Johnson and John Wanna (with Hsu‐Ann Lee) (Canberra: Australian National University Press 2015), pp.436, AU$35.00 (pb).
Abbott's Gambit: 2013 Australian Federal Election
In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 62, Heft 1, S. 147-148
ISSN: 0004-9522
What Happened to Queensland's Disaster Management Arrangements?: From 'Global Best Practice' to 'Unsustainable' in 3 Years
In: Australian journal of public administration, Band 74, Heft 2, S. 187-198
ISSN: 1467-8500
The Queensland Police and Community Safety Review (PACSR) 2013 headed by Mick Keelty was tasked by the Queensland government to examine the State's emergency management practices and processes. Commissioned before any crisis, the PACSR was still collecting evidence when extensive flooding occurred across many regional centres of Queensland in 2013. It was the subsequent management of this event, and selected evidence from earlier inquiries that underpinned many of the findings in the final PACSR report. Keelty recommended institutional and organizational restructuring that included the abolition of a department, and the tasking of the fire and rescue service with additional oversight and audit functions. PACSR argued too much emphasis was placed on relationships, which made disaster management in Queensland potentially unsustainable in the longer term. Some of the findings replicated those of earlier inquiries (O'Sullivan 2009; QFCI 2012), including the apparent reluctance by police to implement communications systems that are interoperable with other emergency agencies. This reluctance to embrace new technologies indicates institutional and cultural barriers to reform. Despite this, the Police and Fire and Rescue services have been given additional responsibilities by the Newman government, based on Keelty's recommendations. PACSR did not appear to evaluate some of the best practice aspects of the 2010–2011 flooding event, whereas some suggest the report had a predetermined element to it (Byrne 2014). In finding that too much emphasis was placed on informal relationships and networks in 2013, and concentrating on structural reforms instead, this paper argues that the PACSR discounted many features that current crisis literature notes as important for a successful disaster management response.
What Happened to Queensland's Disaster Management Arrangements?: From 'Global Best Practice' to 'Unsustainable' in 3 Years
In: Australian journal of public administration: the journal of the Royal Institute of Public Administration Australia, Band 74, Heft 2, S. 187-198
ISSN: 0313-6647
The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate, Volume 3 1962-1983 with an introduction
In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 57, Heft 1, S. 132-133
ISSN: 1467-8497
Arthur Tange: Last of the Mandarins
In: Australian journal of political science: journal of the Australasian Political Studies Association, Band 42, Heft 3, S. 524-525
ISSN: 1036-1146
Queensland: January to June 2000
In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 46, Heft 4, S. 575-581
ISSN: 0004-9522
Outlines political events & concerns in Queensland, Jan-June 2000: the by-election of Bundamba & Woodridge, & the Labour Party's victorious nominees, Jo-Ann Miller & Mike Kaiser; issues regarding the set-up of Virgin Atlantic headquarters in Brisbane; leadership problems within the Liberal Party; financial troubles of the One Nation Party; the censure of Members of Parliament Dorothy Pratt & Shaun Nelson; strikes by transport workers, schoolteachers, & hospital workers; faux pas by several members of the government; the unveiling of a proposal to reform & improve indigenous community living standards; & licensing brothels. The two policy issues of tree clearing & fuel rebates were the most problematic for the government. E. Sanchez
Political Chronicles - Queensland
In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 46, Heft 4, S. 575-580
ISSN: 0004-9522
Leadership Lessons: Minority Governments, Independents and Relationships
In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 60, Heft 1, S. 58-72
ISSN: 0004-9522
Leadership Lessons: Minority Governments, Independents and Relationships
In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 60, Heft 1, S. 58-72
ISSN: 1467-8497
The 2010 Australian election returned the first "hung" House of Representatives since the Second World War. This paper tracks the political lessons of history to the only other time when a prime minister had to work in a hung parliament. Circumstances and political parties differ, but on closer examination some common themes emerge. The prime ministership is both a gift and a burden, where control is, for the most part illusory. R.G. Menzies lacked the personal qualities his parliamentary colleagues found in Arthur Fadden. In 1941 he lost the prime ministership because he lost the support of his party room. Just as she had defeated Kevin Rudd in 2010, Julia Gillard was eventually defeated in a caucus ballot in June 2013. However, at least initially, Gillard displayed personal traits which Rudd lacked and which enabled her to retain the trust of both the ALP caucus and key independent members. History contains some valid lessons which, given recent events, need restating: relationships in politics matter.
The Ayes Have It: The History of the Queensland Parliament 1957-89
'The Ayes Have It' is a fascinating account of the Queensland Parliament during three decades of high-drama politics. It examines in detail the Queensland Parliament from the days of the 'Labor split' in the 1950s, through the conservative governments of Frank Nicklin, John Bjelke- Petersen and Mike Ahern, to the fall of the Nationals government led briefly by Russell Cooper in December 1989. The volume traces the rough and tumble of parliamentary politics in the frontier state. The authors focus on parliament as a political forum, on the representatives and personalities that made up the institution over this period, on the priorities and political agendas that were pursued, and the increasingly contentious practices used to control parliamentary proceedings. Throughout the entire history are woven other controversies that repeatedly recur – controversies over state economic development, the provision of government services, industrial disputation and government reactions, electoral zoning and disputes over malapportionment, the impost of taxation in the 'low tax state', encroachments on civil liberties and political protests, the perennial topic of censorship, as well as the emerging issues of integrity, concerns about conflicts of interest and the slide towards corruption. There are fights with the federal government – especially with the Whitlam government – and internal fights within the governing coalition which eventually leads to its collapse in 1983, after which the Nationals manage to govern alone for two very tumultuous terms. On the non-government side, the bitterness of the 1950s split was reflected in the early parliaments of this period, and while the Australian Labor Party eventually saw off its rivalrous off-shoot (the QLP-DLP) it then began to implode through waves of internal factional discord.
Rethinking voter identification: its rationale and impact
In: Australian journal of political science: journal of the Australasian Political Studies Association, Band 51, Heft 3, S. 386-399
ISSN: 1363-030X
Rethinking voter identification: its rationale and impact
In: Australian journal of political science, S. 1-14