Simon O’sullivan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 180396 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Simon O’sullivan |
| PRENOMES | Simon |
| SOBRENOME | O’sullivan |
| ASSINATURA | O’SULLIVAN S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4705-1182 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 156 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
From Myth-Work to Grief Work
Is there a sense in which archaeological artefacts can be activated within the present, perhaps even to call forth different futures? This article involves a personal account – alongside archaeological analysis (and some theoretical speculation) – of an encounter with the Folkton Drums and how a kind of “re-versioning” of them in and for the present allows other affects and meanings to foreground themselves. At stake here especially is a relation…
On Collaboration
Hybrid governance and welfare standards for broiler chickens raised for human consumption
This article examines the welfare standards that govern the lives of chickens raised for meat in Australia and the United Kingdom. While ‘meat chickens’ are subject to a wide range of welfare interventions, we focus on the development and implications of the ‘private’ standards which are the most significant determinants of meat chicken welfare in these jurisdictions: the RSPCA Approved Farming Scheme in Australia and the Red Tractor Chicken Assu…
De la science‐fiction à la science‐fictionnalisation
Cet article étudie les différentes formes de prise que la science‐fiction peut avoir sur le réel et, plus particulièrement, cherche à définir un genre de pratique d’écriture expérimentale (envisagée au sens large) qui serait moins lié au futur qu’à une instanciation dudit futur. Il commence par commenter Fredric Jameson et Raymond Williams, et leurs travaux sur l’utopie et la SF, puis se tourne vers le concept de « fiction des mondes hors-science…
Good Clients and Hard Cases
Frontline staff play a critical role in welfare-to-work delivery, making decisions about who gets selected for which supports and sanctions. Research on these street-level bureaucrats shows them rarely implementing policy exactly as written. Instead, they bring differing valuation frames and identity assessments to this work, resulting in different implementations of policy. Central to this selectivity is the way they type and classify different …
Cat got your tongue? Free speech, democracy and Australia’s ‘ag-gag’ laws
In recent years Australian governments have proposed, and enacted, 'ag-gag' laws which extend the criminalisation of peaceful, non-violent activities such as trespass to deter animal protection advocates from obtaining information about animal welfare, information that is not obtainable in other ways and that contributes to public deliberation around an important policy issue. This article asks two questions. First, if a speaker engages in non-vi…
Locked-in or Locked-out
Australia's welfare-to-work system has been subject to ongoing political contestation and policy reform since the 1990s. In this paper we take a big picture look at the Australian system over time, re-visiting our earlier analysis of the impact of marketisation on flexibility at the frontline over the first ten years of the Australian market in employment services. That analysis demonstrated that marketisation had failed to deliver the service fl…
Introduction
Welfare reforms across OECD countries have seen social citizenship rights contractualisedandincreasinglyrepurposedascommodifying ‘tool[s]ofgovernance’ (Patrick,2017: 293) designed to reconfigure people from ‘passive’ benefit recipients into ‘active’ labour market participants. But despite a significant expansion in the groups of citizens targeted for ‘activation’, countries have persistently struggled to support the labour market (re)integration …
The Category Game and its Impact on Street-Level Bureaucrats and Jobseekers
A key question concerning the marketisation of employment services is the interaction between performance management systems and frontline client-selection practices. While the internal sorting of clients for employability by agencies has received much attention, less is known about how performance management shapes official categorisation practices at the point of programme referral. Drawing on case studies of four Australian agencies, this stud…
Rap and Political Participation
This article explores how rap music workshops can be an effective method when researching neighbourhood regeneration and refurbishment with children and young people, especially in disadvantaged communities. The article draws a research with 78 children and young people in a large social housing estate which is undergoing regeneration and refurbishment in Cork City in the South of Ireland. The focus of this article is on a sub-group of six teenag…
Tainted Love
Developing an academic career can be exciting, rewarding and stimulating. It can also be challenging, disheartening, and highly insecure. Results from a survey of Animal Studies (AS) scholars identifies reasons why pursuing a career in AS might generate additional challenges, over and above those experienced by academics generally. For example, 44 percent of respondents stated that in their view, undertaking research in AS “creates challenges for…
Pussy Panic' and Glass Elevators
The ‘pussy panic’ of our title is a phrase that belongs to Susan Fraiman. It is a diagnosis, a lament, and a warning about how Animal Studies (AS) is currently torn between rising academic respectability bestowed through the “installation of Derrida as founding father” (Fraiman, 93), and the neglect that this entails for AS’s deep roots in feminist scholarship going back decades, and across a number of disciplines (Gruen 2018). Finding that a ‘pr…
The Policymaker's Dilemma
In September 2009, the British Government launched a new employment assistance model called Flexible New Deal. It was soon replaced by Work Programme in 2011. Both prioritized what is often called a ‘black box’ approach to public employment assistance, whereby the government purchaser focuses predominantly on outcomes and does not seek to direct agency operations. Using a study of the orientations and strategies of frontline employment services s…
From the interpersonal to the internet
In Australia, e-government is continuously re-defining service boundaries. While this may be good in the case of transactional interactions, for example the online submission of tax returns, it is less clear that interpersonal services, such as working closely with the long-term unemployed, are best delivered digitally. We consider the impact of social services digitisation on vulnerable communities drawing on an analysis of remote Aboriginal com…
Governance, public policy and boundary-making
This symposium draws attention to innovative and emerging research in Australian public policy exploring the interplay of governance, public policy and boundary-making. Conceptually and substantively, boundaries are fundamental to understanding policy outcomes, yet remain overlooked and undertheorised. We aim to contribute to public policy debates, in Australia and beyond, by provoking further reflection on this theme, in particular, the distribu…
Mythopoesis or Fiction as Mode of Existence
This article explores a trend in some British contemporary art towards ‘fictioning’, when this names not only the blurring of the reality/fiction boundary, but also, more generally, the material instantiation – or performance – of fictions within the real. It attends to three practices of this fiction as mode of existence: sequencing and nesting (Mike Nelson); the deployment ‘fabulous images’ and intercessors (Brian Catling); and more occult tech…
Animal Activists, Civil Disobedience and Global Responses to Transnational Injustice
Chinese animal protection laws and the globalisation of welfare norms
This paper examines China's emerging animal anti-cruelty law and the extent to which it meets established animal welfare norms or not. Features that render the draft laws distinctly Chinese include the restrictive interpretation of cruelty as deliberate abuse, stringent pet control stipulations, and compromises on the consumption of dogs and cats. Meanwhile, the draft laws also reflect the Western experience. Animals are categorised according to …
Animal ethics and the political
Some of the most important contributions to animal ethics over the past decade or so have come from political, as opposed to moral, philosophers. As such, some have argued that there been a ‘political turn’ in the field. If there has been such a turn, it needs to be shown that there is something which unites these contributions, and which sets them apart from previous work. We find that some of the features which have been claimed to be shared co…
Deleuze Against Control
Through recourse to Gilles Deleuze's short polemical essay 'Postscript on Control Societies' and the accompanying interview (in Negotiations) on 'Control and Becoming', this article attempts to map out the conceptual contours of an artistic war machine (Deleuze's 'new weapons') that might be pitched against control and also play a role in the more ethico-political function of the constitution of a people (or, what Deleuze calls subjectification).…
The Promises and Pitfalls of Prime Provider Models in Service Delivery
At a time of fiscal restraint and reductions in the size of the public sector, governments in Australia are exploring new approaches to delivering public services. One model receiving attention is the prime provider approach. This is an approach where government contracts a lead or prime provider who in turn organizes and manages a group of sub‐contractors. In prime provider approaches, non‐government organizations take on a quasi‐government role…
“Low down Dirty Rat”
Possums and rats are both found in large numbers in the city of Melbourne, Australia. The two species share much in common, including an ability to flourish among humans and a predisposition for building nests in houses and eating food and plants intended for humans. Yet despite numerous similarities possums and rats are afforded strikingly different levels of protection before the law. The death of a possum must be justified and carried out pain…
Introduction
With welfare reformers in almost every country experimenting with forms of privatization and what its advocates have called ‘supervisory approaches to poverty’ or ‘a new behaviouralism’, it is timely to present this special edition of Social Policy & Administration. Dedicating a volume to the governance of quasi-markets in welfare services attests to the momentous nature of the radical re-design the welfare state has undergone over the past two d…
Governance, Boards of Directors and the Impact of Contracting on Not‐for‐profit Organizations – An A ustralian Study
This article investigates strategic changes in the governance of not‐for‐profit ( NFP ) boards in response to A ustralia's fully contracted employment services system. Of interest are changes in board demography, behaviour, procedures and dynamics, with special attention to the impact of those changes on boards' identity as a representation of community interests. As Australia is in the vanguard of social service contracting, the Australian exper…
New public management and welfare-to-work in Australia
Since the 1990s, the adoption of new public management (NPM) as a management philosophy has translated into multiple waves of reform in the employment services sector in Australia, namely Working Nation (1994–96), Job Network (JN: 1996–2009) and Job Services Australia (JSA: 2009–present). Each wave has sought to improve the preceding policy. In this article, we examine changes implemented during the Rudd/Gillard Labor governments. Using governmen…
Quasi-Markets and Service Delivery Flexibility Following a Decade of Employment Assistance Reform in Australia
In 1998, we were witnessing major changes in frontline social service delivery across the OECD and this was theorised as the emergence of a post-Fordist welfare state. Changes in public management thinking, known as New Public Management (NPM), informed this shift, as did public choice theory. A 1998 study of Australia's then partially privatised employment assistance sector provided an ideal place to test the impact of such changes upon actual s…
Animals, Equality and Democracy
Animals, Equality and Democracy examines the structure of animal protection legislation and finds that it is deeply inequitable, with a tendency to favour those animals the community is most likely to
From the interpersonal to the internet
In Australia, e-government is continuously re-defining service boundaries. While this may be good in the case of transactional interactions, for example the online submission of tax returns, it is less clear that interpersonal services, such as working closely with the long-term unemployed, are best delivered digitally. We consider the impact of social services digitisation on vulnerable communities drawing on an analysis of remote Aboriginal com…
New public management and welfare-to-work in Australia
Since the 1990s, the adoption of new public management (NPM) as a management philosophy has translated into multiple waves of reform in the employment services sector in Australia, namely Working Nation (1994–96), Job Network (JN: 1996–2009) and Job Services Australia (JSA: 2009–present). Each wave has sought to improve the preceding policy. In this article, we examine changes implemented during the Rudd/Gillard Labor governments. Using governmen…
Pussy Panic' and Glass Elevators
The ‘pussy panic’ of our title is a phrase that belongs to Susan Fraiman. It is a diagnosis, a lament, and a warning about how Animal Studies (AS) is currently torn between rising academic respectability bestowed through the “installation of Derrida as founding father” (Fraiman, 93), and the neglect that this entails for AS’s deep roots in feminist scholarship going back decades, and across a number of disciplines (Gruen 2018). Finding that a ‘pr…
The Policymaker's Dilemma
In September 2009, the British Government launched a new employment assistance model called Flexible New Deal. It was soon replaced by Work Programme in 2011. Both prioritized what is often called a ‘black box’ approach to public employment assistance, whereby the government purchaser focuses predominantly on outcomes and does not seek to direct agency operations. Using a study of the orientations and strategies of frontline employment services s…
Animal ethics and the political
Some of the most important contributions to animal ethics over the past decade or so have come from political, as opposed to moral, philosophers. As such, some have argued that there been a ‘political turn’ in the field. If there has been such a turn, it needs to be shown that there is something which unites these contributions, and which sets them apart from previous work. We find that some of the features which have been claimed to be shared co…
Hybrid governance and welfare standards for broiler chickens raised for human consumption
This article examines the welfare standards that govern the lives of chickens raised for meat in Australia and the United Kingdom. While ‘meat chickens’ are subject to a wide range of welfare interventions, we focus on the development and implications of the ‘private’ standards which are the most significant determinants of meat chicken welfare in these jurisdictions: the RSPCA Approved Farming Scheme in Australia and the Red Tractor Chicken Assu…
Locked-in or Locked-out
Australia's welfare-to-work system has been subject to ongoing political contestation and policy reform since the 1990s. In this paper we take a big picture look at the Australian system over time, re-visiting our earlier analysis of the impact of marketisation on flexibility at the frontline over the first ten years of the Australian market in employment services. That analysis demonstrated that marketisation had failed to deliver the service fl…
The Category Game and its Impact on Street-Level Bureaucrats and Jobseekers
A key question concerning the marketisation of employment services is the interaction between performance management systems and frontline client-selection practices. While the internal sorting of clients for employability by agencies has received much attention, less is known about how performance management shapes official categorisation practices at the point of programme referral. Drawing on case studies of four Australian agencies, this stud…
Trespass, Animals and Democratic Engagement
Cat got your tongue? Free speech, democracy and Australia’s ‘ag-gag’ laws
In recent years Australian governments have proposed, and enacted, 'ag-gag' laws which extend the criminalisation of peaceful, non-violent activities such as trespass to deter animal protection advocates from obtaining information about animal welfare, information that is not obtainable in other ways and that contributes to public deliberation around an important policy issue. This article asks two questions. First, if a speaker engages in non-vi…
Deleuze Against Control
Through recourse to Gilles Deleuze's short polemical essay 'Postscript on Control Societies' and the accompanying interview (in Negotiations) on 'Control and Becoming', this article attempts to map out the conceptual contours of an artistic war machine (Deleuze's 'new weapons') that might be pitched against control and also play a role in the more ethico-political function of the constitution of a people (or, what Deleuze calls subjectification).…
Introduction
With welfare reformers in almost every country experimenting with forms of privatization and what its advocates have called ‘supervisory approaches to poverty’ or ‘a new behaviouralism’, it is timely to present this special edition of Social Policy & Administration. Dedicating a volume to the governance of quasi-markets in welfare services attests to the momentous nature of the radical re-design the welfare state has undergone over the past two d…
Governance, public policy and boundary-making
This symposium draws attention to innovative and emerging research in Australian public policy exploring the interplay of governance, public policy and boundary-making. Conceptually and substantively, boundaries are fundamental to understanding policy outcomes, yet remain overlooked and undertheorised. We aim to contribute to public policy debates, in Australia and beyond, by provoking further reflection on this theme, in particular, the distribu…
Introduction
Welfare reforms across OECD countries have seen social citizenship rights contractualisedandincreasinglyrepurposedascommodifying ‘tool[s]ofgovernance’ (Patrick,2017: 293) designed to reconfigure people from ‘passive’ benefit recipients into ‘active’ labour market participants. But despite a significant expansion in the groups of citizens targeted for ‘activation’, countries have persistently struggled to support the labour market (re)integration …
Rap and Political Participation
This article explores how rap music workshops can be an effective method when researching neighbourhood regeneration and refurbishment with children and young people, especially in disadvantaged communities. The article draws a research with 78 children and young people in a large social housing estate which is undergoing regeneration and refurbishment in Cork City in the South of Ireland. The focus of this article is on a sub-group of six teenag…
Animal Activists, Civil Disobedience and Global Responses to Transnational Injustice
Governance, Boards of Directors and the Impact of Contracting on Not‐for‐profit Organizations – An A ustralian Study
This article investigates strategic changes in the governance of not‐for‐profit ( NFP ) boards in response to A ustralia's fully contracted employment services system. Of interest are changes in board demography, behaviour, procedures and dynamics, with special attention to the impact of those changes on boards' identity as a representation of community interests. As Australia is in the vanguard of social service contracting, the Australian exper…
Good Clients and Hard Cases
Frontline staff play a critical role in welfare-to-work delivery, making decisions about who gets selected for which supports and sanctions. Research on these street-level bureaucrats shows them rarely implementing policy exactly as written. Instead, they bring differing valuation frames and identity assessments to this work, resulting in different implementations of policy. Central to this selectivity is the way they type and classify different …
Tainted Love
Developing an academic career can be exciting, rewarding and stimulating. It can also be challenging, disheartening, and highly insecure. Results from a survey of Animal Studies (AS) scholars identifies reasons why pursuing a career in AS might generate additional challenges, over and above those experienced by academics generally. For example, 44 percent of respondents stated that in their view, undertaking research in AS “creates challenges for…
Chinese animal protection laws and the globalisation of welfare norms
This paper examines China's emerging animal anti-cruelty law and the extent to which it meets established animal welfare norms or not. Features that render the draft laws distinctly Chinese include the restrictive interpretation of cruelty as deliberate abuse, stringent pet control stipulations, and compromises on the consumption of dogs and cats. Meanwhile, the draft laws also reflect the Western experience. Animals are categorised according to …
The Promises and Pitfalls of Prime Provider Models in Service Delivery
At a time of fiscal restraint and reductions in the size of the public sector, governments in Australia are exploring new approaches to delivering public services. One model receiving attention is the prime provider approach. This is an approach where government contracts a lead or prime provider who in turn organizes and manages a group of sub‐contractors. In prime provider approaches, non‐government organizations take on a quasi‐government role…
Riding the Crest of a Human-Animal Studies Wave
Les manuscrits des lexiques et glossaires de l'Antiquite tardive a la fin du moyen age. Actes du Colloque international (Erice, 23-30 septembre 1994) Jacqueline Hamesse
Journal Article Les manuscrits des lexiques et glossaires de l'Antiquité tardive à la fin du moyen âge. Actes du Colloque international (Erice, 23–30 septembre 1994) Jacqueline Hamesse Get access Sinead O'Sullivan Sinead O'Sullivan St Anne's College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 115, Issue 464, November 2000, Pages 1259–1260, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/115.4…
Art Encounters Deleuze and Guattari
In a series of philosophical discussions and artistic case studies, this volume develops a materialist and immanent approach to modern and contemporary art. The argument is made for a return to aesthe
Pragmatics for the Production of Subjectivity
This article attends to the collaborative project of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, and specifically to their concept of “probe‐head” as mapped out in A Thousand Plateaus. Probe‐head names the rupturing of, and production of alternative modes of organisation to, the mixed semiotic of faciality that determines much of our lived life, in fact that constitutes us as “human”. In exploring this alternative “production of subjectivity” the essay at…
Deleuze and Contemporary Art
The Chymical Wedding
The Chymical Wedding’ was a parade and ritual performed at Tate Britain, London, and included the showing of two films of previous Plastique Fantastique performances (‘What is a pre-industrial modern?’ (in gallery 9) and ‘24 hour puja for the people-yet-to come’ (in the South Gallery)). The Chymical Wedding’ draws upon the custom of ‘mumming’. Traditionally, ‘mummers’ would wander the country, drunk and in masks, and gatecrash New Year festivitie…
The Politics of Being a Nonhuman Animal
The epigraph to this chapter is taken from the history of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) in the United Kingdom. It serves as a reminder of the insidious position many animals occupy. They are a central part of our economic system and work hard on our behalf. Yet they have no capacity to utilise political processes in order to defend their interests. Yes, a glorious change would result if animals were able to ta…
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
The words above were spoken in 1809 by Lord Erskine, on the floor of the British Parliament. He went on to describe how he purchased the horse in order to ensure the animal was put out of his misery. Erskine was trying to persuade his Westminster colleagues to enact the modern world’s first animal welfare statute. He was able to address Parliament with great passion on the topic of animal suffering because he, like his contemporaries, was regular…
Animal Visibility
Like many others, Republican speech writer and author Matthew Scully found the mass slaughter of hundreds of thousands of cattle in the United Kingdom, prompted by the 2001 foot-and-mouth disease epidemic, distressing and distasteful. However, as he rightly points out, the big difference between what occurred in that case and what happens to animals every other day is that foot-and-mouth disease generated wide media interest. So, on that particul…
Conclusion
I have worked to show that animal protection instruments throughout the Western world are biased. They were biased at the time the first statute was created in 1822 and have remained biased to the present day. I have termed this type of bias ‘the internal inconsistency’. It is internal because it tells us nothing about how we manage animals compared to humans. It only exposes problems with the way we treat animals in comparison to other animals. …
What’s Good for the Goose Should Also be Good for the Gander
In 1892 Henry Salt had little doubt that the emerging modern political state had the capacity to strongly protect the interests of animals, so long as the ‘humanitarians’ had the last laugh. I share his optimism. I am highly suspicious of claims that liberalism is an inherently anti-animal framework or that we must look to an entirely new political paradigm to comprehensively protect the interests of animals. Robert Garner may be correct when he …
Animal Inconsistencies
So wrote Peter Singer, the so-called father of the animal rights movement, in his 1975 classic Animal Liberation. The passage appears under the heading ‘All Animals are Equal...’ Yet Singer was not talking about just any old sort of equity, he was using the equity principle in a very particular way, whether he was aware of it or not. Singer’s concern was with a type of inequity or bias, which I have termed the ‘external inconsistency’. The extern…
Riding the Crest of a Human-Animal Studies Wave
Animals, Equality and Democracy
Animals, Equality and Democracy examines the structure of animal protection legislation and finds that it is deeply inequitable, with a tendency to favour those animals the community is most likely to
Minding Animals — The Human Re-Engagement with Animals

Quasi-Markets and Service Delivery Flexibility Following a Decade of Employment Assistance Reform in Australia
In 1998, we were witnessing major changes in frontline social service delivery across the OECD and this was theorised as the emergence of a post-Fordist welfare state. Changes in public management thinking, known as New Public Management (NPM), informed this shift, as did public choice theory. A 1998 study of Australia's then partially privatised employment assistance sector provided an ideal place to test the impact of such changes upon actual s…
Beyond Animal Rights
Book Review| October 01 2012 Beyond Animal Rights: Food, Pets and Ethics Beyond Animal Rights: Food, Pets and Ethics. By Tony Milligan. (London, England: Continuum, 2010. 168+xii pp. Paperback. $19.95. ISBN: 9781441157539.). Siobhan O’Sullivan Siobhan O’Sullivan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Animal Ethics (2012) 2 (2): 231–232. https://doi.org/10.5406/janimalethics.2.2.0231 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share T…
The Animals & Society Institute Fellowship
The Animals & Society Institute (ASI) launched its Human-Animal Studies \nFellowship program in 2007. The aim of the Fellowship is to support research \npertaining to relationships between humans and other animals, thereby helping \nto establish Human-Animal Studies (HAS)2 \n as a robust academic field. \nASI’s leadership appreciated that a program that created a network and \nbrought researchers together for a short time would be an important to…
Whaling in Japan
Whaling in Japan: power, politics and diplomacy, by Jun Morikawa, London, Hurst & Company, 2009, xii + 160 pp., index, £15.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781850659846, £45.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781850659839
A Diagram of the Finite-Infinite Relation
Trespass, Animals and Democratic Engagement
“Low down Dirty Rat”
Possums and rats are both found in large numbers in the city of Melbourne, Australia. The two species share much in common, including an ability to flourish among humans and a predisposition for building nests in houses and eating food and plants intended for humans. Yet despite numerous similarities possums and rats are afforded strikingly different levels of protection before the law. The death of a possum must be justified and carried out pain…
Introduction
With welfare reformers in almost every country experimenting with forms of privatization and what its advocates have called ‘supervisory approaches to poverty’ or ‘a new behaviouralism’, it is timely to present this special edition of Social Policy & Administration. Dedicating a volume to the governance of quasi-markets in welfare services attests to the momentous nature of the radical re-design the welfare state has undergone over the past two d…
Governance, Boards of Directors and the Impact of Contracting on Not‐for‐profit Organizations – An A ustralian Study
This article investigates strategic changes in the governance of not‐for‐profit ( NFP ) boards in response to A ustralia's fully contracted employment services system. Of interest are changes in board demography, behaviour, procedures and dynamics, with special attention to the impact of those changes on boards' identity as a representation of community interests. As Australia is in the vanguard of social service contracting, the Australian exper…
New public management and welfare-to-work in Australia
Since the 1990s, the adoption of new public management (NPM) as a management philosophy has translated into multiple waves of reform in the employment services sector in Australia, namely Working Nation (1994–96), Job Network (JN: 1996–2009) and Job Services Australia (JSA: 2009–present). Each wave has sought to improve the preceding policy. In this article, we examine changes implemented during the Rudd/Gillard Labor governments. Using governmen…
The Promises and Pitfalls of Prime Provider Models in Service Delivery
At a time of fiscal restraint and reductions in the size of the public sector, governments in Australia are exploring new approaches to delivering public services. One model receiving attention is the prime provider approach. This is an approach where government contracts a lead or prime provider who in turn organizes and manages a group of sub‐contractors. In prime provider approaches, non‐government organizations take on a quasi‐government role…
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