Report
Australian political lives: chronicling political careers and administrative histories
This monograph brings together some of the best practitioners and scholars of the art and craft of political biography in Australia.
Conference paper
Public service, public values: the implementation of a charter of values in the Australian public service
John Wanna examines the tortuous processes through which a charter of ‘values’ was introduced to the Australian Public Service Act in 1999. It first charts the political debates and context that shaped the introduction of these ‘APS values’, then evaluates the implementation of these values on a whole-of-government basis. He looks at how and why...