Australian Politics and Policy - Senior, 2019a

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About the authors
Dr John R. Butcher has adjunct appointments as an Australian and New Zealand
School of Government (ANZSOG) Research Fellow in the School of Politics and
InternationalRelationsattheAustralianNationalUniversityandasaresearch
fellow in the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy within the Curtin Business
School at Curtin University. His principal research focuses on the relationship
between government and the not-for-profit sector. He is the co-editor (with David
Gilchrist) of Thethreesectorsolution(2016) and co-author (with John Wanna and
Ben Freyens) of Policy in action (2010).
Trish Mercer is an ANZSOG Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University
and a regular presenter in the Crawford School’s Executive Education Program.
Trish has a doctorate in history from ANU and a diploma in American studies from
Smith College (USA). As a former senior executive in the Australian public service,
Trish had a diverse career incorporating policy and program development, research
and evaluation, and direct service delivery. Her social policy research interests
include early childhood, schools and employment services. Her current ANZSOG
research project explores how theories of the policy process can be transferred and
taken into practice.
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