Governments in Australia are in the process of implementing accrual reporting for their
departments and governments as a whole. The central issue of this paper is to provide an …

How do Australian governments budget? How well do they spend and manage our money?
Governments seem to be locked in a constant struggle with the problems of budgeting …

ÔThis volume confronts one of the most central issues in the study and practice of
bureaucracy. Questions about representativeness of public institutions raises key issues …

This thesis traces the development of the ministerial staffing system in Australian
Commonwealth government from 1972 to the present. It explores four aspects of its …

Anyone who has taught courses or conducted research under the rubric of 'public
administration'must have been troubled more or less frequently by two characteristics of his …

This thesis presents an historical analysis of several developments in Australian public
sector accounting (APSA). In the early 1990s these developments have been hailed as …

Public administration in Australia was initially built upon inherited British traditions that were
later interwoven with United States approaches to administrative science. The early …

This article compares two approaches to administrative reform. The first, the traditional
approach, relies on the generation of a reform blueprint by an autonomous commission …

ABSTRACT The publication of Tim Rowse's biography of HC Coombs, A Reforming Life,
provides an appropriate context to further explore the life of Coombs. In particular, the …

Traditional attitudes of public administrators are being challenged in both Australia and New
Zealand where radical changes in thinking and institutional design are taking place. This is …