Public management 1996: once more unto the breach

Public management 1996: once more unto the breach

Reviewing public administration in Australia was
once akin to watching glaciers - you knew there was movement and something was happening beneath the surface, but detection required patient observation over a long period of time. This is no longer the case. Since the 1980s,
administrative change, too easily labelled 'reform' by its proponents and apologists, has become the order of the day. Governments, state and federal, of all political persuasions are involved. Even local government, once the backwater of public administration, has been touched. Instigating administrative change is something that 'good'
governments (and public sector managers) are supposed to do.

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