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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Research Scholarships
Institute of Public Administration Australia/University of Canberra Public Administration Research Trust Fund
This Fund, which is administered through the ANZSOG Institute, reaches its 25th anniversary in 2011, and an appropriate up-date report on its proceedings over the past few years is now being prepared for publication in the March issue of the IPAA journal Public Administration Today. For the most recent up-date report, see Public Administration Today, issue no.10, January-March 2007.
Recipients of 2010 grants and awards from the Fund are:
Grants to assist research projects:
- John Halligan of the University of Canberra. Comparing civil service systems in Anglophone countries.
- Robyn Morris, Rolf Gerritsen, Thomas Michel and Michael Limerick, of Edith Cowan University, Charles Darwin University, Roper Gulf Shire Council and Australian Centre for Excellence in Local Government respectively. Rural-remote and indigenous local government: Capacity building needs and strategies.
- Zim Nwokora of Griffith University. Debunking the elite consensus on the politics of campaign finance in Australia.
- Jeannette Taylor of the University of Western Australia. Drivers of government managers’ job productivity in the Asia Pacific.
- Christopher Vas of the Commonwealth Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Spanning policy innovation through public engagement.
Richardson Award for most important/most influential article in the 2009 volume of the Australian Journal of Public Administration
Michael Limerick, for his article ‘What makes an Aboriginal Council successful? Case studies of Aboriginal Community Government Performance in Far North Queensland’, in the December 2009 issue.