Australian Politics and Policy - Senior, 2019a

Australian Politics and Policy
About the authors
Isi Unikowski worked for three decades in the Australian public service in a variety
of central and line departments and agencies, including the Department of the
Prime Minister and Cabinet, the Australian Public Service Commission, the
DepartmentsofSocialSecurityandClimateChange,Centrelinkandothers.Heis
currently in the final year of a PhD candidacy at the Crawford School of Public
Policy at the Australian National University (ANU), conducting research on the
practice of intergovernmental management.
John Wanna is the foundation professor of the Australia and New Zealand School
of Government (ANZSOG) based at ANU. Previously, he was professor of politics
at Griffith University, and he currently holds a joint appointment with Griffith
andANU.Healsoservesasthenationaldirectorofresearchandmonograph
publications for ANZSOG (with 55 titles produced to date). He has been engaged
in research on the public sector in Australia since the 1970s and has many
publications on public policy, public management, government budgeting and
federalism. He has written over 50 books in the field, and over 100 journal articles
and book chapters, and regularly writes the political chronicle for the federal
government in the Australian Journal of Politics and History.
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