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{"title":"Success and failure in foreign policy: Comparing Bob Hawke and Kevin Rudd's regional order-building initiatives","authors":"Benjamin Day","doi":"10.1111/1467-8500.70002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.70002","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Remarkably little is known about what factors drive success or failure in foreign policy. In part, this is because there is little fundamental agreement on what constitutes success or failure in this domain in the first place. This article engages with these shortcomings by comparing two similar regional order-building initiatives overseen by Australian leaders: Bob Hawke's establishment of APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) in 1989, which is routinely celebrated as a success, and Kevin Rudd's Asia Pacific Community (APC) project, launched in 2008 and generally considered a failure. Despite their respective reputations, the reasons for the contrary outcomes in these cases are not as straightforward as might be assumed. Factors cited as chief reasons for the successful establishment of APEC—the creative middle power diplomacy embraced by Hawke's government and the diplomatic skill of envoy Richard Woolcott—were also present in the APC case. Meanwhile, the reasons typically offered for the failure of the APC initiative—that it had not been properly thought through when announced and hence surprised regional partners—are similarly true of the APEC example. Juxtaposing these cases reveals the highly contingent nature of success and failure in foreign policy while also calling attention to the influence of leadership, timing, and strategic narrative in determining these outcomes.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Points for practitioners</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <div>\u0000 <ul>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Foreign policy, as a domain of public policy domain, is distinguished by three mutually reinforcing qualities: the extreme dominance of the executive and especially the leader; its low salience; and low domestic political contestation.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>These ‘special’ characteristics of foreign policy amplify the challenges of assessing success and failure in this domain. When making foreign policy, states and their leaders seek to exert influence outside their domestic jurisdiction, beyond where they enjoy exclusive decision-making authority. This elevates the degree of complexity and contingency potentially involved in achieving and attributing foreign policy ‘success’.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Leadership, timing, and the ability to develop strategic narratives are especially important in determining foreign policy success and failure.</li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47373,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Public Administration","volume":"85 2","pages":"310-326"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8500.70002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Hard bargaining—Passing Commonwealth schools funding legislation through the Senate—Successful policy but political failure","authors":"Scott Prasser","doi":"10.1111/1467-8500.70009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.70009","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article examines the Turnbull Coalition government's changes to the Commonwealth school funding model, inherited from its Labor predecessor, made by amendments to the <i>Australian Education Act 2013</i> (Cth) passed in the Senate in June 2017 in terms of McConnell's three dimensions of policy success. By so doing, the case demonstrates both the interplay of policy, process, and political success and the challenges of sustaining successful reform to Australia's complex school funding system. It highlights, for instance, that achieving success in one dimension, such as having a good process or even a viable policy/programme that addresses identifiable problems, can falter if the other dimensions of political success are not also achieved. This is what occurred with the Turnbull government's school funding changes. Consequently, they lacked durability and were further amended very quickly by the subsequent Morrison government, though some parts remained intact. Further, viewing this case study in this way has allowed for the multi-dimensional nature of doing policy to be understood. It also provides a more realistic delineation of the shared roles between the federal education minister, his office, and the department across all three dimensions of achieving policy success—developing the policy, managing the processes, and dealing with the politics.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Points for practitioners</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <div>\u0000 <ul>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Success needs to be seen across the interrelated areas of policy, process, and politics.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Success in one domain may not suffice to ensure success in other domains.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Developing policy is an iterative process involving ongoing negotiation.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Co-operation is essential between the political (ministerial office) and administrative (department) arms of government concerning goals, processes, and measurement of success.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Success is often short-lived so contingency plans are needed to ‘salvage’ as much as possible from the original policy.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Developing lasting reforms is becoming increasingly difficult in the Australian political context.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Evidence-based policy, even when accompanied by legislative enactment, will not alone ensure durable policy success—everything is ‘politics’.</li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47373,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Public Administration","volume":"85 2","pages":"327-344"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ChatGPT in public policy teaching and assessment: An examination of opportunities and challenges","authors":"Daniel Casey","doi":"10.1111/1467-8500.12647","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-8500.12647","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper presents the findings of an innovative assessment task that required students to use ChatGPT for drafting a policy brief to an Australian Government minister. The study explores how future public policy students perceive ChatGPT's role in both public policy and teaching and assessment. Through self-reflective essays and focus group discussions, the research looks at the limitations of ChatGPT that the students identified, demonstrating it struggles to produce analytically sound, politically responsive, and nuanced policy recommendations. The findings align with the “technoscepticism” theoretical frame, indicating concerns that artificial intelligence (AI) tools could undermine good policy analysis processes. The students supported greater use of ChatGPT in the classroom, to increase ChatGPT-literacy, help students learn to engage ethically and appropriately with AI tools, and better develop evaluative judgement skills.</p>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The paper contributes insights into the intersection of ChatGPT, teaching and assessment, and public policy and seeks to prompt further exploration and discussion on the implications of integrating ChatGPT into both public policy and its education and assessment.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Points for practitioners</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <div>\u0000 <ul>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Future public service graduates are highly sceptical about the value of ChatGPT for developing policy.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>They are concerned about the ethical implications, the lack of transparency, and the impact it may have on marginalised communities.</li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47373,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Public Administration","volume":"85 2","pages":"362-376"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8500.12647","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141100051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing immigration policy success in Australia","authors":"Anna Katherine Boucher","doi":"10.1111/1467-8500.12680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12680","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Immigration is an area of public policy ripe for potential characterisation as either policy success or failure. Given that it is a complex area of policy, it is often politicised, and there are different stakeholders with varying views of what constitutes ‘success’ and ‘failure’. All these factors suggest that a policy's success or failure will in some instances change over time and can be open to subjective opinion. In this article, we focus on particular aspects of this story—how the temporal dimension of determining policy success and failure can influence our assessment of policies. We assess one policy that has been evaluated as a success, particularly in a global context: Australia's selection of skilled immigrants and the subsequent incorporation of these migrants as permanent residents. We then consider a policy area that is more accurately considered a policy failure—namely, the historical management of asylum seeker backlogs and its effects upon the occasional misuse of certain visa processes by visa applicants—and we outline how this issue grew over time. This supports the fundamental argument that the assessment of success and failure is temporal in nature and that the endurance of policy is crucial in determining its characterisation. Furthermore, deviation from the original policy intent over time will be an additional measure of policy failure, and this will vary according to implementation challenges.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Points for practitioners</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <div>\u0000 <ul>\u0000 \u0000 <li>The assessment of policy as ‘successful’ or a ‘failure’ is temporal in nature. It is hard to be successful over the long term.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>The quality of data available to policy-makers will influence the ways in which the relative success of policy is adjudged. Administrative datasets can provide more detailed insights for policy evaluation than shorter term surveys. Qualitative studies are of value in adjudging success.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Immigration is a policy domain where the evaluation of success will depend upon the perspective of relative stakeholders as there are strongly affected interests in this area with differing views on what constitutes ‘success’.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Immigration policy success shifts over time, dependent upon the interaction with other policy areas such as border protection, enforcement policies and their funding, as well as higher education policy.</li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47373,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Public Administration","volume":"85 2","pages":"295-309"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The contribution of the humanities to the theory and practice of public administration in the 21st century","authors":"Edoardo Ongaro,&nbsp;Wolfgang Drechsler,&nbsp;Fabienne Maron,&nbsp;Albert Meijer,&nbsp;Hiroko Shimada-Logie,&nbsp;Michele Tantardini","doi":"10.1111/1467-8500.70015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.70015","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This Forum Article integrates a range of four contributions which are all underpinned by the conviction that the rediscovery of the humanities may be beneficial to the field of public administration. The first piece examines the contribution that philosophy, as a key discipline of the humanities, can provide to the field of public administration; notably, the piece reflects on the ‘fixation with numbers’ that seems to characterise large part of research in public administration and it argues how, against this drift, a philosophy critical of a reality construed in and through numbers can help attain the level of reasoning required for successful public administration scholarship. The second piece reflects on how literature can foster an understanding and humanistic sensitivity towards constitutional values as well as the basic humane and humanising sympathy for the anguish of vulnerable individuals, thus revisiting the value of literature for the education and training of civil servants. The third piece revisits theological and religious studies and reflects on the continuing relevance of religion in and for public administration studies, notably in the current post-secular era. The fourth and final piece focuses on the discipline of historiography within the humanities and reflects on key issues which require being addressed to establish a mature role for historical research in our discipline. The Forum Article as a whole provides an argument for the continuing relevance of the humanities for the development of the field of public administration.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Points for practitioners</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <div>\u0000 <ul>\u0000 \u0000 <li>This article argues why the humanities can be beneficial for the practice of public administration, including by bringing a different and complementary perspective: in fact, the reasoning of the humanities and that of the social sciences can be seen as complementary to each other.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>The humanities enable us to rediscover the significance of moral sentiments, imagination, and compassion—and to apply a more humane perspective to the practice of public services management.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Integrating the humanities into public administration provides a deeper and broader understanding of ‘context’ and how it affects the functioning of public administrative systems.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Integrating the humanities into the practice of public administration enables the overcoming of dangerous drifts in the field of public administration, including ‘fixation with numbers’.</li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47373,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Public Administration","volume":"85 2","pages":"392-412"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8500.70015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Analysing policy success and failure in Australia: Pink batts and set-top boxes","authors":"Daniel Casey","doi":"10.1111/1467-8500.12663","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-8500.12663","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article examines two Australian government programs from the Rudd/Gillard Labor government, the Home Insulation Program (HIP) and the Digital Switchover Household Assistance Scheme (HAS). Both became shibboleths of the Labor government's perceived waste and incompetence. Using key informant interviews and documents obtained under freedom of information (FOI), I analyse these programs against the multiple ‘dimensions’ of success proposed by Newman and common narrative frames around programme failure. I argue that the HAS was broadly successful across most dimensions of success, notwithstanding the adverse media attention. The study identifies four key factors driving HIP's failure: scheme design, installer training, demand control, and departmental expertise. All of these came back to the timeline pressures, driven by conflicting priorities, which in turn gave the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (PM&amp;C) more influence than would usually be the case. In comparison, HAS's success is attributed to crucial design choices, like the phased rollout and head contractor model. The article identifies the danger of ignoring subject matter expertise and poor policy/Cabinet processes, which have been reinforced by the recent Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Points for practitioners</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <div>\u0000 <ul>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Demand-driven programmes need to have demand-side control techniques built into them.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>The role of central agencies needs to be carefully considered, particularly in relation to areas that are not their expertise, such as detailed programme development and implementation.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Lessons about poor policy and Cabinet processes, as well as cultural change from the Pink Batts Royal Commission, do not appear to have been sufficiently embedded in the culture of the APS, as there are ongoing echoes of the same problems evident in the Robodebt Royal Commission.</li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47373,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Public Administration","volume":"85 2","pages":"226-244"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8500.12663","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141939695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Collaborating in future states—Contextual instability, paradigmatic remaking, and public policy","authors":"Helen Sullivan","doi":"10.1111/1467-8500.12661","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-8500.12661","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;div&gt;\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;Collaboration is ubiquitous in public policy life, with its presence and profile determined by prevailing governance conditions. Commitments to globalisation and marketisation in the latter part of the 20th century marked the onset of an era defined by collaboration, between and across tiers and spheres of government, with non-state actors, and through market and network instruments. Current contextual instability poses questions for dominant public policy paradigms and the existing collaborative settlement. This article explores the challenges presented in the current moment and how policymakers and scholars might navigate them. It focuses on how ideas about economics and security shape public policy, illustrating the paradigm-shifting impact of economism and securitisation. It argues for the replacement of economism and securitisation by sustainability, sovereignty, and justice and demonstrates the latter's engagement with economics and security and their accounting for what have hitherto been ‘subaltern voices’ in public policy. It discusses the implications for collaboration in relation to future collective action problems, more diverse and disconnected ‘publics’, and a more congested and lower trust policy environment. It highlights the need for collaborative plasticity and pluralistic agency.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Points for practitioners&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;div&gt;\u0000 &lt;ul&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;li&gt;Public policymaking is shaped by dominant ideas about economics and security; ideas that become ‘taken for granted’ in policy practice. The prevailing ideas of economism and securitisation are being challenged by contextual changes, globally, regionally, and nationally. This creates space for new ideas to shape future public policy.&lt;/li&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;li&gt;Ideas of sustainability, sovereignty, and justice offer an alternative framework for public policymaking. These ideas can engage productively with economics and security, and they are also inclusive of a wider variety of ‘voices’ particularly those previously marginalised.&lt;/li&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;li&gt;Collaboration will remain integral to the success of public policy. However, it will need to adapt to new circumstances. This will include defining new purposes, reassessing its appropriateness, reshaping collaborative scope, scale, and form, and refining collaborative activities.&lt;/li&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;li&gt;A paradigmatic shift in public policy that highlights sustainability, sovereignty, and justice will require the active involvement of a plurality of actors enabled to contribute new knowledge and contest the status quo.&lt;/li&gt;\u0000 &lt;/ul&gt;\u0000 &lt;/div&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 &lt;","PeriodicalId":47373,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Public Administration","volume":"85 2","pages":"345-361"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8500.12661","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142209338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comparing the success and failure of the Murray–Darling Basin Plan's water recovery programs","authors":"Sarah Ann Wheeler","doi":"10.1111/1467-8500.12672","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12672","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The Murray–Darling Basin (MDB) Plan is held up by some as an exemplar for world-leading water policy, whilst others have called it a failure. Total proposed recovery was to return 3200 GL of consumptive (e.g. namely irrigation) water use to non-consumptive (e.g. environmental) use in the MDB, making it one of the largest planned reallocations of water resources in the world. As of June 2023, over AUD$13 billion was committed financially from the Australian government to Basin water reform, with AUD$7.7 billion spent to date on water recovery programs. The implementation of the Plan has been mired in controversy, and it missed its first water recovery targets that had been set for 2024, requiring substantial legislation amendments. This study provides a qualitative policy overview comparison of the success and failure of the two main water recovery programs implemented—buyback of water entitlements from willing sellers and subsidising irrigation infrastructure (on and off-farm) projects. It concludes that contrary to the popular view held by many, the buyback water recovery program has been a success—achieving the majority of the water recovered to date, at the least cost, with the least negative externalities—in comparison to infrastructure programs.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Points for practitioners</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <div>\u0000 <ul>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Assessing success and failure of MDB water recovery programs requires establishing effectiveness, efficiency and equity criteria. Greater work on the benefits of water reallocation downstream and cultural water is needed.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>A comparison of MDB buyback water recovery programs with irrigation infrastructure programs found higher net benefits for buyback programs.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Use first-best policy to address each water policy objective, not one policy aimed at addressing multi-objectives.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Overall, the Plan.s overall success is still to be determined, given the difficulty in judging environmental outcome success that is intrinsically linked with other external factors.</li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47373,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Public Administration","volume":"85 2","pages":"245-261"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8500.12672","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Land rights and a national representative body: Institutionalisation as a criterion for Indigenous policy success and failure","authors":"Will Sanders","doi":"10.1111/1467-8500.12679","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-8500.12679","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In a half-century perspective on Australian Indigenous policy, land rights are compared with national Indigenous representative bodies. Adopting ‘institutionalisation’ as the criterion for assessing policy success and failure, land rights are seen as gradually progressed through the iterative actions of State and Commonwealth parliaments and their associated courts. By contrast, national Indigenous representative bodies, established solely by Commonwealth administrative or legislative processes, have proven vulnerable to later abolition by those same processes. Although land rights for Indigenous Australians have become legally embedded in Australian public policy over six decades, a national Indigenous representative body has not.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Points for practitioners</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <div>\u0000 <ul>\u0000 \u0000 <li>In timeframes covering multiple parties of government, assessments of policy can be less polarised between success and failure.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Policies that become institutionalised can shift understandings and address problems acknowledged by all political parties, leading to elements of both success and failure.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Land rights and native title policies have become legally entrenched in Australia in the last half-century through the iterative actions of State and Commonwealth parliaments and associated courts. This has achieved significant restitution of land to Indigenous people but with substantial limitations.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>National Indigenous representative bodies have not achieved such institutionalisation, with four having come and gone over the half-century. However, even these discarded failures had achievements in their time, particularly the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission 1990–2005.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Part of public service stewardship is to view policies in both longer and more nuanced terms than the adversary parties of government and opposition.</li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47373,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Public Administration","volume":"85 2","pages":"277-294"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147906017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The values dimension of policy success and failure: Considering two Australian rural adjustment policies","authors":"Linda Courtenay Botterill","doi":"10.1111/1467-8500.12678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12678","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In 1992, Australia introduced a National Drought Policy comprising a number of policies each focused on achieving a common goal of a self-reliant, productive farm sector capable of managing the challenges of climate variability. This paper considers two of these policies, one of which has been an acknowledged success and the other that is generally regarded as a failure. The paper assesses these schemes against the criteria proposed by Luetjens et al. and concludes that analysing policies in values terms is a more effective way of understanding, and potentially predicting, policy success and failure.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Points for practitioners</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <div>\u0000 <ul>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Policy is more likely to succeed if there is an alignment between the purpose underpinning a policy agency and the nature of the policy problem.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Policy can fail where the values of the agency and the target population for the policy differ.</li>\u0000 \u0000 <li>Policy success is more likely where there is a single, clear goal embodying a single value priority rather than multiple values that are in conflict.</li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47373,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Public Administration","volume":"85 2","pages":"262-276"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}