John Chesterman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 479769 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John Chesterman |
| NOMBRES | John |
| APELLIDO | Chesterman |
| FIRMA | CHESTERMAN J |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6827-0275 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Settling on a national Indigenous Australian ‘voice’
This article argues that the call for establishment of a national Indigenous ‘voice’ ought to be seen by the Australian government in historical context, primarily as a call for remediation for historical injustices, not just as an opportunity for improvement in the lives and governance of Indigenous Australians. Viewed this way, the call carries with it an imperative for government both to recognise the moral weight underpinning it and to be act…
The Abuse of Older Australians (Elder Abuse)”
Significant national reform activity is occurring that concerns the abuse of older people by trusted others. This includes an Australian Law Reform Commission report entitled Elder Abuse – A National Legal Response (2017), and the adoption in 2019 of the first ever “National plan to respond to the abuse of older Australians (elder abuse)”. While service responses in this field largely exist at, and will continue to be provided at, state and terri…
The future of adult safeguarding in Australia
Significant reforms to Australia's adult safeguarding laws and practices are in the process of occurring in the context of increasingly market‐oriented social care provision and rising human rights consciousness. Recent safeguarding developments have included federal regulatory reforms concerning disability and aged care service provision, together with significant reform activity stemming from a national inquiry into elder abuse. Despite this na…
Supporting People with Dementia at Home
Supporting People with Dementia at Home details a groundbreaking study of an intensive care management scheme designed for older people with dementia that are at risk of entry into residential care. The authors use a quasi-experimental approach to compare how the individuals on the mental health team in one community were matched to a similar community without the service. They analyze the evidence focusing on the eventual placement of the indivi…
Taking Control
Elder abuse is acknowledged to be a significant social problem in Australia, but Australia's elder abuse responses have significant limitations. These responses, as evidenced by state and territory elder abuse strategies, voice important principles and typically seek to improve the knowledge of service providers, potential victims, and the general public about elder abuse. But they tend only to identify and draw upon existing service and communit…
Modernising Adult Protection in an Age of Choice
This article examines the effect that two important legal and social policy developments are having on adult protection laws and practices in Australia. The first concerns the increasing reach of human rights norms, which encourage minimal reliance to be placed on substitute decision‐making arrangements, such as adult guardianship, in favour of providing greater support for people to make and implement their own decisions. The second concerns the…
The Future of Adult Guardianship in Federal Australia
This article explores two key societal developments that in different, yet related, ways are encouraging national policy changes to Australia's state- and territory-based adult guardianship arrangements. The first concerns the changing demographic nature and disability profile of those Australians who are subject to guardianship orders, with older Australians increasingly—through age-related disabilities—being eligible for guardianship orders. Th…
The Review of Victoria's Guardianship Legislation
This article considers the Victorian government's decision to review the state's guardianship legislation and notes the significant place international human rights developments are playing in that review. The article recognises the opportunities these developments present for reworking the guardianship legislation to increase the autonomy and decision‐making power of people with disabilities, but also considers the challenge these developments p…
The Politics of Human Rights in Australia
Australia has traditionally lacked a strong 'rights' culture. While fairness and equality have been proudly exalted as trademarks of the national mindset, the authors of The Politics of Human Rights in Australia argue that these same characteristics may equate to a form of cultural complacency. The book offers the first comprehensive account of Australia's protection of human rights from a political science perspective. Addressing the key debates…
Law on Australia's Northern Frontier
Cet article compare les deux changements de paradigme les plus importants survenus dans l'administration des Affaires autochtones du Territoire du Nord de l'Australie. En premier lieu, l'Ordonnance de Protection de 1953 représentait, à l'époque, une tentative unique, quoique fondamentalement maladroite, de réinterpréter le statut juridique inférieur des statuts légaux des aborigènes du Territoire du Nord comme étant causé non seulement par leur h…
The Politics of Rights Protection in Western Democracies
This article examines two contentious rights debates – prisoner voting and gay marriage – in five Western democracies in order to assess the impact of different methods of rights protection. The five countries share similar political and legal histories, but two of them (the United States and Canada) have constitutional bills of rights, two (New Zealand and the United Kingdom) have legislative bills of rights, and one (Australia) has no national …
National Policy‐Making in Indigenous Affairs
This article examines the dearth of any representative Indigenous role in national Indigenous affairs policy‐making and suggests a remedy. After making the case for a specific Indigenous place in national policy‐making, the article considers the reasons for the failure of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC), the body that filled this brief for a decade and a half. The article then considers three possible ways of ensuring…
Creating a legal identity
The Commonwealth government of Australia introduced the policy of ‘assimilation’ in the early 1950s. This policy aimed to merge Aboriginal people with other Australians. In 1953 the government drafted legislation that would cease to discriminate against Aboriginal people on the basis of their race, but would instead discriminate against Aboriginal people whose social status rendered them ‘wards’. This reclassification process ultimately affected …
The ‘Delicate Plant’ of Free Speech Needs Water
Natural-Born Subjects? Race and British Subjecthood in Australia
From the time of European settlement in Australia until 1948, British subjecthood was the preeminent Australian citizenship classification. “Australian citizenship” was only created as a legal category in 1948, and from then until 1984 British subjecthood continued to exist, alongside Australian citizenship, as a kind of parenthetical citizenship status. This article explores the meanings and significance of British subjecthood in Australia, and …
Their ultimate absorption’
This is a post-print of an article published in Journal of Australian Studies 2004 published by API Network and Curtin University of Technology. This version is reproduced with permission from API Network. http://www.api-network.com/scgi-bin/jas/jas.cgi
Impact of UK National Health Service smoking cessation services
Well developed, evidence based NHS smoking cessation services, reflecting good practice, are yielding positive outcomes in England. However, most of the data are based on self reported smoking status at four weeks. It will be important to obtain validated data about continuous cessation over one year or more in order to assess longer term impact
Books
A History of the Churches in Australasia. By Ian Breward. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xxi + 474. £65.00 doth. Holocaust Remembrance in Australian Jewish Communities 1945–2000. By Judith E. Berman. Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 2001. Pp. 276. $34.95 paper. Speaking to Immigrants: Oral Testimony and the History of Australian Migration. Edited by A. James Hammerton and Eric Richards. Canberra: History Program and Centr…
Balancing Civil Rights and Indigenous Rights
Defending Australia's reputation
This is the second of two articles concerned with the acquisition by Indigenous Australians of civil rights. The first article considered the background to the legislative changes that saw Indigenous people acquire two important civil rights at the Common‐ wealth level: the vote and access to social security. Here the analysis extends to consider the three other important civil rights ‘moments’ for Indigenous people at the Commonwealth level: the…
Defending australia's reputation how indigenous Australians won civil rights part one
The acquisition of civil rights by Indigenous people is, for a variety of reasons, a surprisingly little understood aspect of recent Australian history. This article, the first of two, examines the background to the legislative changes through which Indigenous people acquired two important civil rights at the Commonwealth level: the vote and access to social security. Two factors, the article argues, were crucial to understanding why these change…
Satisfaction with the care-managed support of older people
Modernising Social Services requires the use of satisfaction surveys in monitoring some key aspects of quality of provision, including user/carer perceptions and experiences of services and involvement of users/carers in assessment and review. Using data from the study Evaluating Community Care for Elderly People (ECCEP), of physically and/or mentally frail community-based older people in England and Wales receiving community care services, this …
The State of Citizenship
The State of Citizenship
Books reviewed in this article: Luc, Rouban (ed.) Citizens and the New Governance: Beyond New Public Management Wayne, Hudson and John, Kane (eds) Rethinking Australian Citizenship Birte, Siim Gender and Citizenship: Politics and Agency in France, Britain and Denmark
Sellars v Coleman
2001). Sellars v Coleman: The Limits of Free Speech. Australian Journal of Political Science: Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 373-375
Measuring satisfaction with social care amongst older service users
Issues of quality and accountability in social care for older people are of increasing importance. A key factor in determining quality is the extent to which older people themselves are satisfied with both the assessment of their needs and the services provided. The 1997 White Paper, Modernising Social Services, stated that local authorities will need to establish authority-wide objectives and performance measures to improve the quality and effic…
Satisfaction with the care-managed support of older people
Modernising Social Services requires the use of satisfaction surveys in monitoring some key aspects of quality of provision, including user/carer perceptions and experiences of services and involvement of users/carers in assessment and review. Using data from the study Evaluating Community Care for Elderly People (ECCEP), of physically and/or mentally frail community-based older people in England and Wales receiving community care services, this …
The Future of Adult Guardianship in Federal Australia
This article explores two key societal developments that in different, yet related, ways are encouraging national policy changes to Australia's state- and territory-based adult guardianship arrangements. The first concerns the changing demographic nature and disability profile of those Australians who are subject to guardianship orders, with older Australians increasingly—through age-related disabilities—being eligible for guardianship orders. Th…
Their ultimate absorption’
This is a post-print of an article published in Journal of Australian Studies 2004 published by API Network and Curtin University of Technology. This version is reproduced with permission from API Network. http://www.api-network.com/scgi-bin/jas/jas.cgi
Defending Australia's reputation
This is the second of two articles concerned with the acquisition by Indigenous Australians of civil rights. The first article considered the background to the legislative changes that saw Indigenous people acquire two important civil rights at the Common‐ wealth level: the vote and access to social security. Here the analysis extends to consider the three other important civil rights ‘moments’ for Indigenous people at the Commonwealth level: the…
The future of adult safeguarding in Australia
Significant reforms to Australia's adult safeguarding laws and practices are in the process of occurring in the context of increasingly market‐oriented social care provision and rising human rights consciousness. Recent safeguarding developments have included federal regulatory reforms concerning disability and aged care service provision, together with significant reform activity stemming from a national inquiry into elder abuse. Despite this na…
Taking Control
Elder abuse is acknowledged to be a significant social problem in Australia, but Australia's elder abuse responses have significant limitations. These responses, as evidenced by state and territory elder abuse strategies, voice important principles and typically seek to improve the knowledge of service providers, potential victims, and the general public about elder abuse. But they tend only to identify and draw upon existing service and communit…
Modernising Adult Protection in an Age of Choice
This article examines the effect that two important legal and social policy developments are having on adult protection laws and practices in Australia. The first concerns the increasing reach of human rights norms, which encourage minimal reliance to be placed on substitute decision‐making arrangements, such as adult guardianship, in favour of providing greater support for people to make and implement their own decisions. The second concerns the…
The Review of Victoria's Guardianship Legislation
This article considers the Victorian government's decision to review the state's guardianship legislation and notes the significant place international human rights developments are playing in that review. The article recognises the opportunities these developments present for reworking the guardianship legislation to increase the autonomy and decision‐making power of people with disabilities, but also considers the challenge these developments p…
The State of Citizenship
Books reviewed in this article: Luc, Rouban (ed.) Citizens and the New Governance: Beyond New Public Management Wayne, Hudson and John, Kane (eds) Rethinking Australian Citizenship Birte, Siim Gender and Citizenship: Politics and Agency in France, Britain and Denmark
Sellars v Coleman
2001). Sellars v Coleman: The Limits of Free Speech. Australian Journal of Political Science: Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 373-375
National Policy‐Making in Indigenous Affairs
This article examines the dearth of any representative Indigenous role in national Indigenous affairs policy‐making and suggests a remedy. After making the case for a specific Indigenous place in national policy‐making, the article considers the reasons for the failure of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC), the body that filled this brief for a decade and a half. The article then considers three possible ways of ensuring…
Creating a legal identity
The Commonwealth government of Australia introduced the policy of ‘assimilation’ in the early 1950s. This policy aimed to merge Aboriginal people with other Australians. In 1953 the government drafted legislation that would cease to discriminate against Aboriginal people on the basis of their race, but would instead discriminate against Aboriginal people whose social status rendered them ‘wards’. This reclassification process ultimately affected …
The ‘Delicate Plant’ of Free Speech Needs Water
Defending australia's reputation how indigenous Australians won civil rights part one
The acquisition of civil rights by Indigenous people is, for a variety of reasons, a surprisingly little understood aspect of recent Australian history. This article, the first of two, examines the background to the legislative changes through which Indigenous people acquired two important civil rights at the Commonwealth level: the vote and access to social security. Two factors, the article argues, were crucial to understanding why these change…
The State of Citizenship
Mr Coleman is Not Entitled to Be an Agitator
Pat Coleman is an agitator, and agitators are not appreciated in North Queensland. Coleman has just been convicted in the Townsville Magistrates' Court, more or less, of the crime of speaking in public
Seeking to Inspire Public Policy Analysts
The 1997 Public Policy Network Conference was held at Melbourne University's Centre for Public Policy. John Chesterman, one of the organisers, provides a taste of the debates. The 1998 Public Policy Network Conference will be held at Victoria University, Wellington, on 29 and 30 January. Enquires or offers of papers may be forwarded to Dr RJ Gregory (e‐mail [email protected] )
Citizens without Rights
This is the first comprehensive study of the ways in which Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders have been excluded from the rights of Australian citizenship over the past 100 years. Drawing extensively upon archival material, the authors look at how the colonies initiated a policy of exclusion that was then replicated by the Commonwealth and State governments following federation. The book includes careful examination of government policies and…
Seeking to Inspire Public Policy Analysts
The 1997 Public Policy Network Conference was held at Melbourne University's Centre for Public Policy. John Chesterman, one of the organisers, provides a taste of the debates. The 1998 Public Policy Network Conference will be held at Victoria University, Wellington, on 29 and 30 January. Enquires or offers of papers may be forwarded to Dr RJ Gregory (e‐mail [email protected] )
Books
Freedom Bound I: Documents on Women in Colonial Australia. Edited by Patricia Grimshaw, Susan Janson and Marian Quartly. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1995. Pp. xi + 193. $22.95 paper. Freedom Bound II: Documents on Women in Modern Australia. Edited by Marilyn Lake and Katie Holmes. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1995. Pp. xii + 208. $22.95 paper. A Woman's Constitution? Gender and History in the Australian Commonwealth, Edited by Helen Irving. Hale & Iremonger…
Book
Convict Women. By Kay Daniels. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1998. Pp. xi + 276. $24.95 paper. Representing Convicts: New Perspectives on Convict Labour Forced Migration. Edited by Ian Duffield and James Bradley. Leicester University Press, London, 1997. Pp. xxii + 224. £49.95 cloth. Irish Women in Colonial Australia. Edited by Trevor McClaughlin. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1998. Pp. xvii + 229. $24.95 paper. Catherine: On Catherine Currie's Diary, 1878–190…
Citizens without Rights
Taking Civil Rights Seriously
For a variety of reasons Australians possess a curious lack of understanding about the gaining of civil rights by Indigenous people. These reasons include the lack of a clear civil rights ‘moment’ in Australian history and the negative connotations now associated with civil rights when compared to the more radical Indigenous rights. This article explores the reasons for Australia's public amnesia about Indigenous people's acquisition of civil rig…
Mr Coleman is Not Entitled to Be an Agitator
Pat Coleman is an agitator, and agitators are not appreciated in North Queensland. Coleman has just been convicted in the Townsville Magistrates' Court, more or less, of the crime of speaking in public
Books
Australian Feminism: A Companion. Edited by Barbara Caine, Moira Gatens, Emma Grahame, Jan Larbalestier, Sophie Watson and Elizabeth Webby. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xxix + 607. $87.50 cloth. The Imaginary Australian: Anglo‐Celts and Identity, 1788 to the Present By Miriam Dixson. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1999. Pp. viii + 216. $27.95 paper. Getting Equal: The History of Australian Feminism. By Marilyn Lake.…
Measuring satisfaction with social care amongst older service users
Issues of quality and accountability in social care for older people are of increasing importance. A key factor in determining quality is the extent to which older people themselves are satisfied with both the assessment of their needs and the services provided. The 1997 White Paper, Modernising Social Services, stated that local authorities will need to establish authority-wide objectives and performance measures to improve the quality and effic…
Sue v Hill
Sue v Hill : One Nation, Two Citizenships, Three Strikes." Australian Journal of Political Science, 35(1), pp. 135–136
Defending Australia's reputation
This is the second of two articles concerned with the acquisition by Indigenous Australians of civil rights. The first article considered the background to the legislative changes that saw Indigenous people acquire two important civil rights at the Common‐ wealth level: the vote and access to social security. Here the analysis extends to consider the three other important civil rights ‘moments’ for Indigenous people at the Commonwealth level: the…
Defending australia's reputation how indigenous Australians won civil rights part one
The acquisition of civil rights by Indigenous people is, for a variety of reasons, a surprisingly little understood aspect of recent Australian history. This article, the first of two, examines the background to the legislative changes through which Indigenous people acquired two important civil rights at the Commonwealth level: the vote and access to social security. Two factors, the article argues, were crucial to understanding why these change…
Satisfaction with the care-managed support of older people
Modernising Social Services requires the use of satisfaction surveys in monitoring some key aspects of quality of provision, including user/carer perceptions and experiences of services and involvement of users/carers in assessment and review. Using data from the study Evaluating Community Care for Elderly People (ECCEP), of physically and/or mentally frail community-based older people in England and Wales receiving community care services, this …
The State of Citizenship
The State of Citizenship
Books reviewed in this article: Luc, Rouban (ed.) Citizens and the New Governance: Beyond New Public Management Wayne, Hudson and John, Kane (eds) Rethinking Australian Citizenship Birte, Siim Gender and Citizenship: Politics and Agency in France, Britain and Denmark
Sellars v Coleman
2001). Sellars v Coleman: The Limits of Free Speech. Australian Journal of Political Science: Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 373-375
Balancing Civil Rights and Indigenous Rights
Impact of UK National Health Service smoking cessation services
Well developed, evidence based NHS smoking cessation services, reflecting good practice, are yielding positive outcomes in England. However, most of the data are based on self reported smoking status at four weeks. It will be important to obtain validated data about continuous cessation over one year or more in order to assess longer term impact
Books
A History of the Churches in Australasia. By Ian Breward. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xxi + 474. £65.00 doth. Holocaust Remembrance in Australian Jewish Communities 1945–2000. By Judith E. Berman. Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 2001. Pp. 276. $34.95 paper. Speaking to Immigrants: Oral Testimony and the History of Australian Migration. Edited by A. James Hammerton and Eric Richards. Canberra: History Program and Centr…
Their ultimate absorption’
This is a post-print of an article published in Journal of Australian Studies 2004 published by API Network and Curtin University of Technology. This version is reproduced with permission from API Network. http://www.api-network.com/scgi-bin/jas/jas.cgi
Natural-Born Subjects? Race and British Subjecthood in Australia
From the time of European settlement in Australia until 1948, British subjecthood was the preeminent Australian citizenship classification. “Australian citizenship” was only created as a legal category in 1948, and from then until 1984 British subjecthood continued to exist, alongside Australian citizenship, as a kind of parenthetical citizenship status. This article explores the meanings and significance of British subjecthood in Australia, and …
The ‘Delicate Plant’ of Free Speech Needs Water
National Policy‐Making in Indigenous Affairs
This article examines the dearth of any representative Indigenous role in national Indigenous affairs policy‐making and suggests a remedy. After making the case for a specific Indigenous place in national policy‐making, the article considers the reasons for the failure of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC), the body that filled this brief for a decade and a half. The article then considers three possible ways of ensuring…
Creating a legal identity
The Commonwealth government of Australia introduced the policy of ‘assimilation’ in the early 1950s. This policy aimed to merge Aboriginal people with other Australians. In 1953 the government drafted legislation that would cease to discriminate against Aboriginal people on the basis of their race, but would instead discriminate against Aboriginal people whose social status rendered them ‘wards’. This reclassification process ultimately affected …
The Politics of Human Rights in Australia
Australia has traditionally lacked a strong 'rights' culture. While fairness and equality have been proudly exalted as trademarks of the national mindset, the authors of The Politics of Human Rights in Australia argue that these same characteristics may equate to a form of cultural complacency. The book offers the first comprehensive account of Australia's protection of human rights from a political science perspective. Addressing the key debates…
Political science (29 obras) · Law (26 obras) · Law (21 obras) · Sociology (18 obras) · Politics (12 obras) · Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism (10 obras) · Public Administration (10 obras) · Australian History and Society (9 obras) · Public Administration (9 obras) · Human rights (8 obras)