Rights exist behind the wire
In 2004 the ACT Legislative Assembly enacted the Human Rights Act, the first Bill of Rights to be passed into law in Australia. In essence the Act provides that no one may be treated or...
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International Connections
Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration (EROPA)
University of Canberra is one of four elected representatives of teaching/research institutions in the Asia-Pacific region on the EROPA Executive Council.The 2011 EROPA Conference will be held at the National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA) in Bangkok in October, and the University of Canberra will be represented at the meeting of the Executive Council at the Bangkok conference.
Asian Review of Public Administration (ARPA)
ARPA is the journal of EROPA, and is now under the general editorship of Prof. Pan Suk Kim of Yonsei University, South Korea and Professor Roger Wettenhall from ANZSIG is the Associate Editor.
COBRA (Comparative public organisation data Base for Research and Analysis) Agencies Project
This is a project funded mostly by the European Union and centred on the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, aimed at examining issues of autonomy and control in agencies in more than 18 countries. The Australian part of this project was undertaken by Professors Chris Aulich and Roger Wettenhall.
International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration (IASIA)
The University of Canberra (and its predecessor Canberra College of Advanced Education) has been an active member of this Association since its formal establishment in 1974. Its earlier informal existence dates from 1961, and it celebrated the 50th anniversary of its conception at its annual conference in Rome in June 2011.
International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM)
IRSPM held its 15 th Annual Conference in Dublin in April 2011, and several members of the ANZSOG Institute and the Faculty of Business and Government participated.
A set of papers presented in a panel on ‘The Dynamics of Public Ownership and Regulation’ at the 14 th Annual IRSPM conference in Berne, Switzerland, in April 2010 has been developed under the direction of ANZSOG Institute of Government Adjunct Professor Ian Thynne and Professor Roger Wettenhall and published as a special issue of Policy Studies (vol.32 no.3, May 2011). The issue includes articles of a conceptual nature and illustrative case studies relating to the natural gas, hospital, water, alcohol and tobacco industries, with authors from Ireland, Italy, Germany, Sweden and Portugal as well as Australia (including a paper by Professor Chris Aulich).
The Institute's five point internationalisation agenda
The Institute’s research and professional development programs have a five point internationalisation agenda:
- The Institute’s research and professional development programs have been implemented across a broad range of countries such as Afghanistan, Bhutan, Canada, China, Indonesia, Jordan, Korea, New Zealand, Papua-New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Solomon Islands, and the UK;
- Convenorship of public service executive training programs for key countries in Australia’s sphere of influence (Professor Mark Evans convenes the ANZSOG China-Australia program and Professor Mark Turner convenes ANZSOG’s Indonesia program);
- Ability to attract international students from a broad range of countries to the Institute’s MPA and research programs;
- Heightened activity in international professional associations (Professor Linda Botterill in APSA and the Public Policy Network; Professor Mark Evans in the UKPAC/JUC; Professor John Halligan in IASIA; Professor Roger Wettenhall in EROPA); and,
- Contributions to prestigious comparative research projects (M. Evans ed., Policy Studies Volumes 25-32, 2005-2011 (Routledge), G. Stoker, M. Evans, C. Napier and F. Teles, eds., The International Handbook of Local Government (Edward Elgar, 2011), J. Halligan (with W. Van Dooren, G. Bouckaert), Performance Management in the Public Sector (Routledge, 2010) and L. Botterill’s contribution to A. Graycar and R. Smith (eds) Global Handbook on Research and Practice in Corruption (Edward Elgar, 2011). Both Professor Mark Evans and Professor John Halligan are contributors to the International Handbook on Civil Services (Edward Elgar, 2011).
- In addition, Don Fleming is an executive member of the 25 country International Legal Aid Group. It is important to note that our international research outputs correspond directly with the growth of research student numbers from particular countries (e.g. China and Indonesia).