The competing principles framework for analysing Australian Indigenous affairs is revisited, starting with Rowse on 'the Coombs experiment'. Rowse rehabilitates this term from pejorative critics, arguing that all government policy in Indigenous affairs is experimental. The task becomes one of characterising changing patterns of government experiment since the Commonwealth became involved in Indigenous affairs on...

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This paper reports research findings that examine the different types of discretion exercised by planning professionals in English and Victorian Planning systems.

This paper uses a comparative policy approach to examine a novel policy instrument typology which is developed and used to review the current policy settings in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra.

This article focuses on the operational aspects of evidence-based policy - what does it mean for public sector agents ‘to do’ evidence-based policy, or at least to improve its quality?