Cooperation, competition or control? Public policy and the use of tied grants in Australian federalism. Tied grants account for $26 billion worth of Commonwealth expenditure and cover everything from child care to aged care, environmental programs to road building. They crucially affect the capacity of Australian governments to make policy and deliver services. A better understanding of how they work in practice will be a great benefit in improving our capability to meet pressing social, econo ....Cooperation, competition or control? Public policy and the use of tied grants in Australian federalism. Tied grants account for $26 billion worth of Commonwealth expenditure and cover everything from child care to aged care, environmental programs to road building. They crucially affect the capacity of Australian governments to make policy and deliver services. A better understanding of how they work in practice will be a great benefit in improving our capability to meet pressing social, economic, environmental and regional development challenges.Read moreRead less
Television Election Campaign News and Australian Politics. This project seeks to expand our understanding of a vital and largely unexplored nexus -- that between television and electoral attitudes and behaviour in Australia. Building on substantial organisational, empirical and analytic work already completed, it will construct two new databases by content-analysing videotapes we recorded of the TV election campaign news coverage during the 1998 and 2001 Australian federal elections. Merged wi ....Television Election Campaign News and Australian Politics. This project seeks to expand our understanding of a vital and largely unexplored nexus -- that between television and electoral attitudes and behaviour in Australia. Building on substantial organisational, empirical and analytic work already completed, it will construct two new databases by content-analysing videotapes we recorded of the TV election campaign news coverage during the 1998 and 2001 Australian federal elections. Merged with survey data, and existing 1996 TV data, our analyses will yield a number of publications on TV content, leader images, presidentialisation, and TV cues in voter decision-making -- the first cross-time examination of these themes in Australia.Read moreRead less
A biography of Sir Paul Hasluck (1905-1993). Paul Hasluck is one of the most significant figures in post-war Australian history. This project will make use of a large body of archival sources, previously unavailable and unexamined, to evaluate Hasluck's roles as politician, diplomat, governor-general, historian, poet, commentator and policymaker. The expected outcome will be a nuanced political biography and an unusual and important case study of a conservative intellectual in Australian politic ....A biography of Sir Paul Hasluck (1905-1993). Paul Hasluck is one of the most significant figures in post-war Australian history. This project will make use of a large body of archival sources, previously unavailable and unexamined, to evaluate Hasluck's roles as politician, diplomat, governor-general, historian, poet, commentator and policymaker. The expected outcome will be a nuanced political biography and an unusual and important case study of a conservative intellectual in Australian politics. Completion will coincide with the centenary of Hasluck's birth in 2005.Read moreRead less