Anne Tiernan
Biographic Data
| ID | 129661 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Tiernan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Tiernan |
| SIGNATURE | TIERNAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2888-2290 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 104 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Promise and Challenge of Social Innovation and Social Enterprise
Current theory and practice of social innovation and their impact on the formulation and implementation of policy in Australia and New Zealand are critically assessed. Three interrelated forms of social innovation—social enterprise, social finance, and social procurement—are examined to highlight the role they have played in promoting social innovation throughout the region. The focus is on market-led approaches: that is, methods of social innova…
The Oxford Handbook of Australian Politics
The Oxford Handbook of Australian Politics is a comprehensive collection that considers Australia’s distinctive politics—both ancient and modern—at all levels and across many themes. It examines the factors that make Australian politics unique and interesting, while firmly placing these in the context of the nation’s Indigenous and imported heritage and global engagement. The book presents an account of Australian politics that recognizes and cel…
Policy capacity in disruptive times
In considering the widely held view that we have experienced an era of qualitative decline in policy provision, this paper briefly reviews four questions that appear to underlie such a view. Have there been identifiable transitions in deliberative processes, political practices and policy capacity in recent decades (and if so, what were the catalysts)? Has the relationship between policy practitioners and expert providers of policy advice changed…
Climate change policy discontinuity and its effects on Australia's national electricity market
Australia's National Electricity Market (NEM) became unstable in 2016/2017 after 20 years of consistent performance. The South Australian grid collapsed on 28 September 2016 – Australia's first black system event since 1964. Wholesale prices in the region trebled to $120+/MWh; soon after Hazelwood power station announced its exit with just 5 months’ notice. The problem spread as prices elsewhere doubled to $89/MWh from a long‐run average of $42.5…
Integrating Recovery within a Resilience Framework
Within Australia’s federal system, responsibility for preventing, preparing for, responding to and recovering from natural disasters is shared between the three tiers of government. Intergovernmental policy and funding arrangements are premised on shared responsibility and aim to foster individual, business and community resilience. These arrangements underpin Australia’s international reputation for effectiveness in its management of natural dis…
Court politics in a federal polity
This article uses a case study from Queensland to demonstrate the court politics approach's potential to reinvigorate executive studies. Court politics focuses on webs of interdependence within the core executive. It examines the beliefs and practices of elite actors and their fluid and contingent relationships. This article examines the patterns of executive politics that prevailed under Premier Anna Bligh. It seeks to answer three key questions…
Craft and Capacity in the Public Service
Over the past 8 years, debates about Australia's public service have evolved from being focused mainly on skills and capacities to being now increasingly concerned about the operating environment for career officials, their ability to fulfil their stewardship obligations, and to practice their ‘craft’. In this article, I track those changes and ask what is the craft of public administration? How should we understand it? Are concerns it is imperil…
Looking to the Past and the Future of the Australian Journal of Public Administration
The first issue of the Australian Journal of Public Administration (AJPA) was published in December 1937 and contained just two articles. The first was by Sir Herbert Gepp K.B.E.,1 a metallurgist and manager, who joined the public service in 1926. One of his roles in the Australian Public Service was as the chairman of the Development and Migration Commission that was created to ‘apply scientific methods to economic and politics problems in the i…
Reforming Australia's Federal Framework
A narrative of failure permeates debates about Australia's federal system. A cursory review of analysis and particularly of media commentary, reveals a deep pessimism about this central and distinctive feature of Australia's governing framework (see, among numerous potential examples, National Commission of Audit 2014). Elite disdain towards Australia's system of shared powers and a tendency to overlook its many strengths, has limited the scope a…
Focus groups and prime ministers' chiefs of staff
Purpose- The purpose of this paper is to outline the current state of political and administrative ethnography in political science and public administration before suggesting that focus groups are a useful tool in the study of governing elites. They provide an alternative way of "being there" when the rules about secrecy and access prevent participant observation. Briefly, it describes the job of Prime Ministers' Chiefs of Staff before explainin…
Advising Australian Federal Governments
Internationally, there have been persistent complaints that the policy capacity of governments has declined. This critique is widely accepted, including in Australia, but for the most part, such claims are assertions, made without reference to empirical evidence and data. This introduction to the Special Issue examining the Policy Advisory Capacity of the Australian Public Service considers these assertions and proposes an approach and methodolog…
The Australian Public Service and Policy Advising
This concluding article summarises the case study findings comprising the Special Issue on ‘Advising Australian Federal Governments: Assessing the Evolving Capacity and Role of the Australian Public Service’, identifies and discusses cross-cutting issues, and considers strategic implications for future practice and research. It reviews key findings from six case studies – Treasury, Prime Minister and Cabinet, Intergovernmental Relations, Housing,…
Advising Ministers - The Special Problem of Defence
Successive Australian Defence Ministers have been frustrated and occasionally embarrassed by the quality of advice and information provided to them by the Defence organisation. Decades of reviews and reorganisations have failed to find solutions to the special difficulties that Defence faces in providing accurate, timely information and advice to ministers across the broad spectrum of their responsibilities. This article argues that there are mul…
No Home for Housing
The Commonwealth's policy capacity with regard to housing policy and provision has been erratic and patchy. Partly this is because housing was not traditionally a formal Commonwealth responsibility but something in which Commonwealth governments episodically intervened, and partly it was because Commonwealth ministers often did not exercise demand for policy advice in this area. When policy capacity was exercised it tended to define housing narro…
The Council for the Australian Federation
In October 2006, state premiers and territory chief ministers gathered in Melbourne for the first meeting of the Council for the Australian Federation (CAF). This little‐heralded event marked the beginning of the first formalised structure for state and territory only collaboration since Federation. This article describes the genesis and creation of this new structural response to ongoing state concerns about the trend to an increasingly centrali…
The learner
This article uses an explanatory framework suggested by presidential studies scholars, Charles Walcott and Karen Hult (1995; 2004), to document the forces that have shaped the structures of support to decision-makers in the Australian national security policy domain. It traces the continuities in national security advisory arrangements – the ‘deep structures’ of advice and support to Australian prime ministers and their cabinets. The article focu…
Working with the stock we have
Queensland's Implementation Unit (IU) was established in March 2004, part of a further restructuring of the Department of Premier and Cabinet (DPC) following the re-election of Peter Beattie's Labor government for a third term. The premier had identified implementation as a weakness during his second term and was frustrated by the performance of key ministers and agencies. This article describes the creation of IU; profiles its role, structure, f…
Advising Howard
John Howard, Prime Minister for nearly a decade, leads a disciplined Cabinet and, save for a few recent rumblings, a united and orderly backbench. He runs a tightly controlled political and policy agenda that unmistakably bears his personal stamp. How can John Howard's authority be understood and explained? While undoubtedly the product of his personality and working style, his formidable political skills, experience and renowned personal discipl…
A Load of Old Garbage
This article reviews the applicability of Kingdon’s garbage–can model of agenda setting and alternative specification for understanding the complexities of policy–making in the housing policy context. Garbage–can theories reject conventional ‘policy cycle’ models which envisage policy development processes as rational and underpinned by the logic of problem solving. They posit a loose relationship between problems and the policy solutions offered…
Advising Australian Federal Governments
Internationally, there have been persistent complaints that the policy capacity of governments has declined. This critique is widely accepted, including in Australia, but for the most part, such claims are assertions, made without reference to empirical evidence and data. This introduction to the Special Issue examining the Policy Advisory Capacity of the Australian Public Service considers these assertions and proposes an approach and methodolog…
Advising Howard
John Howard, Prime Minister for nearly a decade, leads a disciplined Cabinet and, save for a few recent rumblings, a united and orderly backbench. He runs a tightly controlled political and policy agenda that unmistakably bears his personal stamp. How can John Howard's authority be understood and explained? While undoubtedly the product of his personality and working style, his formidable political skills, experience and renowned personal discipl…
The Australian Public Service and Policy Advising
This concluding article summarises the case study findings comprising the Special Issue on ‘Advising Australian Federal Governments: Assessing the Evolving Capacity and Role of the Australian Public Service’, identifies and discusses cross-cutting issues, and considers strategic implications for future practice and research. It reviews key findings from six case studies – Treasury, Prime Minister and Cabinet, Intergovernmental Relations, Housing,…
A Load of Old Garbage
This article reviews the applicability of Kingdon’s garbage–can model of agenda setting and alternative specification for understanding the complexities of policy–making in the housing policy context. Garbage–can theories reject conventional ‘policy cycle’ models which envisage policy development processes as rational and underpinned by the logic of problem solving. They posit a loose relationship between problems and the policy solutions offered…
No Home for Housing
The Commonwealth's policy capacity with regard to housing policy and provision has been erratic and patchy. Partly this is because housing was not traditionally a formal Commonwealth responsibility but something in which Commonwealth governments episodically intervened, and partly it was because Commonwealth ministers often did not exercise demand for policy advice in this area. When policy capacity was exercised it tended to define housing narro…
Policy capacity in disruptive times
In considering the widely held view that we have experienced an era of qualitative decline in policy provision, this paper briefly reviews four questions that appear to underlie such a view. Have there been identifiable transitions in deliberative processes, political practices and policy capacity in recent decades (and if so, what were the catalysts)? Has the relationship between policy practitioners and expert providers of policy advice changed…
Craft and Capacity in the Public Service
Over the past 8 years, debates about Australia's public service have evolved from being focused mainly on skills and capacities to being now increasingly concerned about the operating environment for career officials, their ability to fulfil their stewardship obligations, and to practice their ‘craft’. In this article, I track those changes and ask what is the craft of public administration? How should we understand it? Are concerns it is imperil…
Climate change policy discontinuity and its effects on Australia's national electricity market
Australia's National Electricity Market (NEM) became unstable in 2016/2017 after 20 years of consistent performance. The South Australian grid collapsed on 28 September 2016 – Australia's first black system event since 1964. Wholesale prices in the region trebled to $120+/MWh; soon after Hazelwood power station announced its exit with just 5 months’ notice. The problem spread as prices elsewhere doubled to $89/MWh from a long‐run average of $42.5…
The Council for the Australian Federation
In October 2006, state premiers and territory chief ministers gathered in Melbourne for the first meeting of the Council for the Australian Federation (CAF). This little‐heralded event marked the beginning of the first formalised structure for state and territory only collaboration since Federation. This article describes the genesis and creation of this new structural response to ongoing state concerns about the trend to an increasingly centrali…
Integrating Recovery within a Resilience Framework
Within Australia’s federal system, responsibility for preventing, preparing for, responding to and recovering from natural disasters is shared between the three tiers of government. Intergovernmental policy and funding arrangements are premised on shared responsibility and aim to foster individual, business and community resilience. These arrangements underpin Australia’s international reputation for effectiveness in its management of natural dis…
Focus groups and prime ministers' chiefs of staff
Purpose- The purpose of this paper is to outline the current state of political and administrative ethnography in political science and public administration before suggesting that focus groups are a useful tool in the study of governing elites. They provide an alternative way of "being there" when the rules about secrecy and access prevent participant observation. Briefly, it describes the job of Prime Ministers' Chiefs of Staff before explainin…
Court politics in a federal polity
This article uses a case study from Queensland to demonstrate the court politics approach's potential to reinvigorate executive studies. Court politics focuses on webs of interdependence within the core executive. It examines the beliefs and practices of elite actors and their fluid and contingent relationships. This article examines the patterns of executive politics that prevailed under Premier Anna Bligh. It seeks to answer three key questions…
Looking to the Past and the Future of the Australian Journal of Public Administration
The first issue of the Australian Journal of Public Administration (AJPA) was published in December 1937 and contained just two articles. The first was by Sir Herbert Gepp K.B.E.,1 a metallurgist and manager, who joined the public service in 1926. One of his roles in the Australian Public Service was as the chairman of the Development and Migration Commission that was created to ‘apply scientific methods to economic and politics problems in the i…
Reforming Australia's Federal Framework
A narrative of failure permeates debates about Australia's federal system. A cursory review of analysis and particularly of media commentary, reveals a deep pessimism about this central and distinctive feature of Australia's governing framework (see, among numerous potential examples, National Commission of Audit 2014). Elite disdain towards Australia's system of shared powers and a tendency to overlook its many strengths, has limited the scope a…
Working with the stock we have
Queensland's Implementation Unit (IU) was established in March 2004, part of a further restructuring of the Department of Premier and Cabinet (DPC) following the re-election of Peter Beattie's Labor government for a third term. The premier had identified implementation as a weakness during his second term and was frustrated by the performance of key ministers and agencies. This article describes the creation of IU; profiles its role, structure, f…
A Load of Old Garbage
This article reviews the applicability of Kingdon’s garbage–can model of agenda setting and alternative specification for understanding the complexities of policy–making in the housing policy context. Garbage–can theories reject conventional ‘policy cycle’ models which envisage policy development processes as rational and underpinned by the logic of problem solving. They posit a loose relationship between problems and the policy solutions offered…
Working with the stock we have
Queensland's Implementation Unit (IU) was established in March 2004, part of a further restructuring of the Department of Premier and Cabinet (DPC) following the re-election of Peter Beattie's Labor government for a third term. The premier had identified implementation as a weakness during his second term and was frustrated by the performance of key ministers and agencies. This article describes the creation of IU; profiles its role, structure, f…
Advising Howard
John Howard, Prime Minister for nearly a decade, leads a disciplined Cabinet and, save for a few recent rumblings, a united and orderly backbench. He runs a tightly controlled political and policy agenda that unmistakably bears his personal stamp. How can John Howard's authority be understood and explained? While undoubtedly the product of his personality and working style, his formidable political skills, experience and renowned personal discipl…
The learner
This article uses an explanatory framework suggested by presidential studies scholars, Charles Walcott and Karen Hult (1995; 2004), to document the forces that have shaped the structures of support to decision-makers in the Australian national security policy domain. It traces the continuities in national security advisory arrangements – the ‘deep structures’ of advice and support to Australian prime ministers and their cabinets. The article focu…
The Council for the Australian Federation
In October 2006, state premiers and territory chief ministers gathered in Melbourne for the first meeting of the Council for the Australian Federation (CAF). This little‐heralded event marked the beginning of the first formalised structure for state and territory only collaboration since Federation. This article describes the genesis and creation of this new structural response to ongoing state concerns about the trend to an increasingly centrali…
Advising Australian Federal Governments
Internationally, there have been persistent complaints that the policy capacity of governments has declined. This critique is widely accepted, including in Australia, but for the most part, such claims are assertions, made without reference to empirical evidence and data. This introduction to the Special Issue examining the Policy Advisory Capacity of the Australian Public Service considers these assertions and proposes an approach and methodolog…
The Australian Public Service and Policy Advising
This concluding article summarises the case study findings comprising the Special Issue on ‘Advising Australian Federal Governments: Assessing the Evolving Capacity and Role of the Australian Public Service’, identifies and discusses cross-cutting issues, and considers strategic implications for future practice and research. It reviews key findings from six case studies – Treasury, Prime Minister and Cabinet, Intergovernmental Relations, Housing,…
Advising Ministers - The Special Problem of Defence
Successive Australian Defence Ministers have been frustrated and occasionally embarrassed by the quality of advice and information provided to them by the Defence organisation. Decades of reviews and reorganisations have failed to find solutions to the special difficulties that Defence faces in providing accurate, timely information and advice to ministers across the broad spectrum of their responsibilities. This article argues that there are mul…
No Home for Housing
The Commonwealth's policy capacity with regard to housing policy and provision has been erratic and patchy. Partly this is because housing was not traditionally a formal Commonwealth responsibility but something in which Commonwealth governments episodically intervened, and partly it was because Commonwealth ministers often did not exercise demand for policy advice in this area. When policy capacity was exercised it tended to define housing narro…
Craft and Capacity in the Public Service
Over the past 8 years, debates about Australia's public service have evolved from being focused mainly on skills and capacities to being now increasingly concerned about the operating environment for career officials, their ability to fulfil their stewardship obligations, and to practice their ‘craft’. In this article, I track those changes and ask what is the craft of public administration? How should we understand it? Are concerns it is imperil…
Looking to the Past and the Future of the Australian Journal of Public Administration
The first issue of the Australian Journal of Public Administration (AJPA) was published in December 1937 and contained just two articles. The first was by Sir Herbert Gepp K.B.E.,1 a metallurgist and manager, who joined the public service in 1926. One of his roles in the Australian Public Service was as the chairman of the Development and Migration Commission that was created to ‘apply scientific methods to economic and politics problems in the i…
Reforming Australia's Federal Framework
A narrative of failure permeates debates about Australia's federal system. A cursory review of analysis and particularly of media commentary, reveals a deep pessimism about this central and distinctive feature of Australia's governing framework (see, among numerous potential examples, National Commission of Audit 2014). Elite disdain towards Australia's system of shared powers and a tendency to overlook its many strengths, has limited the scope a…
Focus groups and prime ministers' chiefs of staff
Purpose- The purpose of this paper is to outline the current state of political and administrative ethnography in political science and public administration before suggesting that focus groups are a useful tool in the study of governing elites. They provide an alternative way of "being there" when the rules about secrecy and access prevent participant observation. Briefly, it describes the job of Prime Ministers' Chiefs of Staff before explainin…
Integrating Recovery within a Resilience Framework
Within Australia’s federal system, responsibility for preventing, preparing for, responding to and recovering from natural disasters is shared between the three tiers of government. Intergovernmental policy and funding arrangements are premised on shared responsibility and aim to foster individual, business and community resilience. These arrangements underpin Australia’s international reputation for effectiveness in its management of natural dis…
Court politics in a federal polity
This article uses a case study from Queensland to demonstrate the court politics approach's potential to reinvigorate executive studies. Court politics focuses on webs of interdependence within the core executive. It examines the beliefs and practices of elite actors and their fluid and contingent relationships. This article examines the patterns of executive politics that prevailed under Premier Anna Bligh. It seeks to answer three key questions…
Climate change policy discontinuity and its effects on Australia's national electricity market
Australia's National Electricity Market (NEM) became unstable in 2016/2017 after 20 years of consistent performance. The South Australian grid collapsed on 28 September 2016 – Australia's first black system event since 1964. Wholesale prices in the region trebled to $120+/MWh; soon after Hazelwood power station announced its exit with just 5 months’ notice. The problem spread as prices elsewhere doubled to $89/MWh from a long‐run average of $42.5…
The Oxford Handbook of Australian Politics
The Oxford Handbook of Australian Politics is a comprehensive collection that considers Australia’s distinctive politics—both ancient and modern—at all levels and across many themes. It examines the factors that make Australian politics unique and interesting, while firmly placing these in the context of the nation’s Indigenous and imported heritage and global engagement. The book presents an account of Australian politics that recognizes and cel…
Policy capacity in disruptive times
In considering the widely held view that we have experienced an era of qualitative decline in policy provision, this paper briefly reviews four questions that appear to underlie such a view. Have there been identifiable transitions in deliberative processes, political practices and policy capacity in recent decades (and if so, what were the catalysts)? Has the relationship between policy practitioners and expert providers of policy advice changed…
The Promise and Challenge of Social Innovation and Social Enterprise
Current theory and practice of social innovation and their impact on the formulation and implementation of policy in Australia and New Zealand are critically assessed. Three interrelated forms of social innovation—social enterprise, social finance, and social procurement—are examined to highlight the role they have played in promoting social innovation throughout the region. The focus is on market-led approaches: that is, methods of social innova…
Political science (17 works) · Law (13 works) · Public Administration (13 works) · Public Administration (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Business (11 works) · Public relations (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism (8 works)