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The position of Permanent Head of a ministerial department is a central feature of the Westminster system of government as it evolved in Britain during the nineteenth century. It has been adopted and applied in Australia with some variations. It is not surprising, therefore, that when debate takes place about the system of public administration the role and functions of Permanent Heads receive much attention.

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1974.tb00825.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1974

数据来源: WILEY

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The purpose of this address will be to argue that the task of judicial administration in New South Wales is qualitatively different at the present time from what it has been in the past and special thought and attention and special administrative machinery are required to cope with it. Since the Second World War the business of the courts has been growing, as have judicial numbers, but until recent times the growth has been coped with by relying on established administrative machinery and techniques. The problem was regarded as a quantitative one to be handled by increased staff in the registries, more judges, more courtrooms and so on. But today the scope of the problem demands much more imaginative solutions. It is really different in kind from previous problems in the judicial field.

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1974.tb00826.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1974

数据来源: WILEY

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The creation of an Australian Government Department of the Environment and Conservation represents, I believe, a major step at the national government level towards bringing a new dimension into the decision‐making process. The significance of this step remains to be seen. It will depend on continuing acceptance by all levels of government of the need to have regard to environment and conservation matters in making decisions, and it is too soon yet to predict to what extent it will be accepte

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1974.tb00827.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1974

数据来源: WILEY

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The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR, later to become CSIRO) was established in 1926 to replace the pre‐existing Institute of Science and Industry. Its beginning was suffused with an optimism based on surpluses in Commonwealth revenues in the years 1926–8, an optimism which was reflected in the action of the Parliament in voting the sum of ł500,000 to be placed to the credit of a Trust Fund to give the new organization a good start. This amount was the exact sum which was mentioned by the then Prime Minister, W. M. Hughes, in his burst of enthusiasm, in December, 1915, when he first launched the Advisory Council of Science and Indu

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1974.tb00828.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1974

数据来源: WILEY

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“We are therefore giving priority to setting up economic planning machinery with industry and employee co‐operation to restore strong but balanced economic growth.”—E. G. Whitlam,The Australian, 14th Ma

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1974.tb00829.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1974

数据来源: WILEY

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Readers of this journal, especially those who watch developments affecting the machinery of government in Canberra, will no doubt have noticed the rehabilitation of the concept of statutory independence—a notion that, in some academic circles, had been virtually written off as having little or no relevance in the real world, where the general tendency has been towards an extension of government control and co‐ordination of bureaucratic systems. Although it is much too early to evaluate, with suitable scholarly detachment, the significance of the administrative changes initiated since December, 1972, it seems a safe observation that for a small group of government agencies at least, the Labor Government has committed itself to the idea of independence. This much is clear from its declared aim of giving the Australian Broadcasting Commission more autonomy and the decision, recently announced, to reconstitute the Postmaster‐General's Department into two separate statutory corpora

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1974.tb00830.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1974

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1974.tb00831.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1974

数据来源: WILEY

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Book reviewed in this article:R. S. Gilbert.The Australian Loan Council in Federal Fiscal Adjustments:Kenneth W. Wiltshire:Portuguese Navy: the establishment of the Queensland Department of Industrial Development.M. R. Palmer (ed.).Policy in Transport in New Zealand.

ISSN:0313-6647    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8500.1974.tb00832.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1974

数据来源: WILEY