Sir Henry Bland and the Fraser Government's Administrative Review Committee
Another Chapter in the Statutory Authority Wars
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11961615 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roger Wettenhall (0000-0002-9780-4317, University of Canberra, corresponding author), Paddy Gourley (Tabor College) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 351-369 |
| Publication date | 2009-08-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Journal of Public Administration (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0313-6647 • E-ISSN: 1467-8500 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-8500.2009.00644.x |
| OpenAlex | W2029062151 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
The release of the 1976 Commonwealth cabinet records on 1 January 2007 provided the opportunity to review the work of the Administrative Review Committee (ARC) appointed by the Fraser government and headed by Sir Henry Bland and so to open up a hitherto little appreciated chapter in Australian administrative history. At first glance, it appeared that Bland's ARC had been strongly opposed to widespread use of statutory authorities, for so long a regular part of Australia's machinery of government, thus providing an interesting point of comparison with the Uhrig inquiry of 2003-04, which attracted much notice for its antipathy towards statutorily independent agencies. Given the unusual methodology of the ARC, it was also likely that an account of its work would shed further light on public inquiries generally, perhaps assisting in development of a typology of such inquiries
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| Highly cited | No |