Download or read book Royal Commissions and Public Inquiries in Australia written by Scott Prasser and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there have been many different studies on public inquiries, Royal Commissions and Public Inquiries in Australia provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of public inquiries in Australia. It is based on rigorous and in-depth analysis spanning several decades, and has required patient and painstaking work in defining and identifying different federal public inquiries and monitoring their performance over the last 100 years. ROYAL COMMISSIONS AND PUBLIC INQUIRIES IN AUSTRALIA will be of interest to all who seek to better understand the particular role of public inquiries and what their continued appointment tells us about trends in Australian government generally.' From the Foreword by Professor John Wanna, The Sir John Bunting Professor of Public Administration, Australian National University. ROYAL COMMISSIONS AND PUBLIC INQUIRIES IN AUSTRALIA provides the first comprehensive overview of the extent, use and impact of Commonwealth public inquiries appointed since 1901. Specifically, this new book:* defines 'public inquiries,' and delineates them from other advisory bodies;* details trends in public inquiry numbers since Federation and compares these to overseas jurisdictions;* classifies the different types and forms of public inquiries;* explains public inquiry procedures, powers and associated legislation;* analyses why public inquiries are appointed and their roles in the political system;* assesses their impact on public policy; and,* explores the continuing and future roles of public inquiries. Covering public inquiries appointed by the Commonwealth government since Federation, particular attention is given to those public inquiries appointed during the last thirty years, when inquiry numbers increased markedly. References to numerous inquiries throughout the book are supplemented by detailed case studies of key public inquiries, including royal commissions and appointed by different governments. This authoritative book has been written by an expert in the field. Lecturer Dr Scott Prasser has worked in federal and state governments in senior policy and research advisory positions. ROYAL COMMISSIONS AND PUBLIC INQUIRIES IN AUSTRALIA will be a valuable reference for those interested in a widely used, but often neglected, advisory instrument of modern government that continues to influence many areas of public policy.

Download or read book Royal Commissions and Public Inquiries in Australia written by Scott Prasser and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Royal Commissions and Public Inquiries written by Scott Prasser and published by Connor Court Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the potential of public inquiries and royal commissions to influence policy and administration. The chapters, written by Australian and international contributors, discuss types of public inquiries, how inquiries work, and the effectiveness and impact of recent prominent inquiries.

Download or read book Royal Commissions and Permanent Commissions of Inquiry written by Stephen Donaghue and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Royal commissions and permanent commissions of inquiry.

Download or read book NEW DIRECTIONS IN ROYAL COMMISSIONS PUBLIC INQUIRIES written by Scott Prasser and published by . This book was released on 2023-01-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edited volume has been developed because governments in Australia and overseas continue to appoint public inquiries in considerable numbers. Public inquiries are those temporary, ad hoc bodies appointed by executive government to report on corruption, calamitous events and many different policy issues. Using Australian and international case studies, this new volume explores why royal commissions and public inquiries are appointed, their processes and their impacts. It provides an up-to-date review of current Australian and international developments. Contributors include leading academic specialists and practitioners from across Australian and international jurisdictions. Contributors Include: Scott Prasser (Editor) David Lee (University of NSW) Paul Tilley (University of Melbourne) Anita Mackay (La Trobe University) Sue Regan (Volunteering Australia) Margaret Cook (Griffith University) Paddy Gourley (former Commonwealth Public Servant) Andrea Wallace (University of New England) Alastair Stark (University of Queensland) Marlene Krasovitsky (Advocate, facilitator and consultant) Robert Carling (Centre for Independent Studies) Dominic Elliott (Dublin City University) John Phillimore and Peter Wilkins (Curtin University) Sarah Cooper and Owen Thomas (University of Exeter, UK) Wendy McGuinness (McGuinness Institute, NZ) Ken Kitts (University of North Alabama) Kira Pronin (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

Download or read book Advocacy in Practice written by James Lindsay Glissan and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its 26th year of publication, the fifth edition of Advocacy in Practice is an authoritative and reliable guide for professionals to the art of advocacy. This highly esteemed work has once again been written by the authoritative and well-respected author James L Glissan, QC, and provides useful and practical checklists for examination, cross and address. It also details when and what objections may be taken, and constructive hints and techniques for dealing with difficult witnesses, opponents and judges. Restored to this edition are the classic cross-examinations from great advocates of the past, as well as a new chapter on general techniques of advocacy, which enlarge the scope of the work beyond the practising lawyer to encompass all areas of practical advocacy.

Download or read book Checklist of Royal Commissions Select Committees of Parliament and Boards of Inquiry written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An index, with summaries, to the public inquiries known as Royal Commissions, or Boards or Commissions of Inquiry, and to parliamentary select committees which are appointed to examine public issues on behalf of the legislative arm of government.

Download or read book Commissions of Inquiry written by A. Paul Pross and published by Thomson Professional Pub Canada. This book was released on 1990 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Checklist of Royal Commissions Select Committees of Parliament and Boards of Inquiry written by Dietrich Hans Borchardt and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Examining the Past and Shaping the Future written by Katie Wright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2023-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the work of the The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2013-17) and its social, psychological, legal and discursive impact.

Download or read book Royal Commissions and Boards of Inquiry written by Leonard Arthur Hallett and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Making Inquiries written by Australia. Law Reform Commission and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report represents the culmination of a nine month inquiry by the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) into the operation of the provisions of the Royal Commissions Act 1902 (Cth), and the question of whether an alternative form or forms of Commonwealth executive inquiry should be established by statute. The Royal Commissions Act was one of 59 statutes enacted by the first Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. This Inquiry is the first comprehensive review of the Act in its 107 year history.

Download or read book Investigating Corruption and Misconduct in Public Office written by Peter Hall and published by Lawbook Company. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating Corruption and Misconduct in Public Office Second Edition provides accessible, authoritative and practical information about anti-corruption agencies. It discusses the substantive principles underpinning propriety and impropriety, public office and corruption. It complements this coverage with practical principles, techniques and strategies for investigating and preventing corruption. Upon its initial publication in 2004, this work quickly became a significant point of reference in relation to the laws, principles, jurisdictional structure and practical operation of anti-corruption legislation and agencies in Australia. This long-awaited Second Edition has been significantly restructured and updated. It reflects more than a decade of activity by commissions of inquiry and state-based crime commissions, and by governments legislating in relation to public integrity, public trust obligations, corruption offences, organized crime and other matters. Features include expert analysis of the common law, legislative schemes for public corruption investigation and prevention bodies (such as the ICAC), and detailed analysis of the powers, investigative processes, and methodologies of corruption investigation.

Download or read book Public Inquiries and Policy Design written by Alastair Stark and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element addresses the gap in policy design literature that has largely ignored the important ways that public inquiries can act as policy design tools, meaning the functions that inquiries can offer the policy designer are not properly understood.

Download or read book Reconciling Truths written by Kim Stanton and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of commissions of inquiry have been struck in Canada since before Confederation, but many of their recommendations are never implemented. Reconciling Truths explores the role and implications of public inquiries, particularly their limits and possibilities in an era of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. Providing examples and in-depth critical analysis of the leadership and process of various commissions, Kim Stanton offers practical guidance on how to improve their effectiveness. This forthright study affirms the potential of inquiries to create a dialogue about issues of public importance, paving the way for policy change and shifting the dominant Canadian narrative over time.

Download or read book Public Inquiries Policy Learning and the Threat of Future Crises written by Alastair Stark and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of major crises governments turn to public inquiries to learn lessons. Inquiries often challenge established authority, frame heroes and villains in the public spotlight and deliver courtroom-like drama to hungry journalists. As such, they can become high-profile political stories in their own right. Inquiries also have a policy learning mandate with big implications because they are ultimately responsible for identifying policy lessons which, if implemented, should keep us safe from the next big event. However, despite their high-profile nature and their position as the pre-eminent means of learning about crises, we still know very little about what inquiries produce in terms of learning and what factors influence their effectiveness in this regard. In light of this, the question that animates this book is as important as it is simple. Can post-crisis inquiries deliver effective lesson-learning which will reduce our vulnerability to future threats? Conventional wisdom suggests that the answer to this question should be an emphatic no. Outside of the academy, for example, inquiries are regularly vilified as costly wastes of time that illuminate very little while inside social scientists echo similar concerns, regularly describing inquiries as unhelpful. These commentaries, however, lack robust, generalizable evidence to support their claims. This volume provides evidence from the first international comparison of post-crisis inquiries in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, which shows that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the post-crisis inquiry is an effective means of policy learning after crises and that they consistently encourage policy reforms that enhance our resilience to future threats.

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Administrative Justice written by Marc Hertogh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The core animating feature of administrative justice scholarship is the desire to understand how justice is achieved through the delivery of public services and the actions, inactions, and decision-making of administrative bodies. The study of administrative justice also encompasses the redress systems by which people can challenge administrative bodies to seek the correction of injustices. For a long time now, scholars have been interested in administrative justice, but without necessarily framing their work as such. Rather than existing under the rubric of administrative justice, much of the research undertaken has existed within sub-categories of disciplines, such as law, sociology, public policy, politics, and public administration. Consequently, although aspects of the topic have attracted rich contributions across such disciplines, administrative justice has rarely been studied or taught in a manner that integrates these areas of research more systematically. This Handbook signals a major change of approach. Drawing together a group of world-leading scholars of administrative justice from a range of disciplines, The Oxford Handbook of Administrative Justice shows how administrative justice is a vibrant, complex, and contested field that is best understood as an area of inquiry in its own right, rather than through traditional disciplinary silos"--