The Conference Program

Academic Day

8.30am -9.00am Registration – Arrival tea and coffee
9.00am -9.15am

Welcome and thanks.                                                                      Objectives of the day: Dr Joanne Kelly, University of Sydney and IPAA NSW Council Member
9.15am -10.00am

Plenary Session

Introductory addresses setting out key themes and issues in public Administration debates in Australia and internationally and how these relate to the Conference themes.                                                                                                             International speaker: Professor Peter Aucoin FRCS CM, Eric Dennis Memorial Professor of Government and Political Science, Dalhousie University, Canada 

Peter Aucoin
10.00am -10.20am Morning Break
10.20am -11.30am

Concurrent Panels Session 1A: Rethinking the basics - adaptive organisations and organisation change                        

Chair: Dr Joanne Kelly, University of Sydney  

Adaptive interpretations of adaptive organisations, Iedema, R., Merrick, E. & Sorrensen, R., University of Technology, Sydney                          Future proofing: preparing government agencies for continual change, Cook, B., The Pacific Institute.

Concurrent Panels Session 1B: Rethinking the basics - knowledge management and the IT challenge 

Chair: Dr Anne Tiernan, Griffith University 

Child Record Information Systems (ChRIS), Srivastava, A., Commissioner Jabalpur Division, India.

Concurrent Panels Session 1C: Rethinking the basics - workforce planning and labour force development 

Chair:  Associate Professor Rodney Smith, University of Sydney.

Developing the Court of Audit in Brazil: the importance of the School of Management and Government, Alfradique, C., Getulio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.                               Population and the labour force participation rates: lessons for workforce planning in South Australia, Barrett, Steven & Spoehr, J., University of Adelaide.
11.40am -1.00pm

Concurrent Panels Session 2A: Breaching the silos – intergovernmental partnerships lessons from home and abroad.                      

Chair: Christopher Walker, University of New South Wales.


Delivery of international development assistance: a RAMSI perspective of working across the Australian government and with international donor partners, Coulson, K., Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI).
The challenges of participation: the case of urban strategic planning in Argentina, Socoloff, I., University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Concurrent Panels Session 2B: Breaching the silos: multi-agency service delivery in regional Australia

Chair: Associate Professor Rodney Smith, University of Sydney


Victoria’s regional management forums: a comparative review, Wear, A., Victorian Department of Planning & Community Development
Collaboration or calibration: reflections on the results and risks of multi-agency regional services, Farland, T., NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet.
Community wellbeing indicators: tools for community engagement, planning and policy, West, S. and Wiseman J., University of Melbourne.

Concurrent Panels Session 2C: Breaching the silos – delivering services across departmental and government boundaries.  

Chair: Dr Anne Tiernan, Griffith University.

Redefining roles in the central agency network: “who manages resource allocation?”  or “is planning the new budgeting”?, Kelly, J., University of Sydney. 
Shaping social inclusion: managing a multi-agency, multi-government reform agenda, Bentley, T., Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG). (TBC)
1.00pm -2.00pm Lunch
2.00pm -3.15pm

Concurrent Panels Session 3A:  Delivering services through networked government: capacity building through knowledge networks                             Chair: Christopher Walker, University of New South Wales.

A knowledge driven South African public sector: learning networks as capacity building tools, Draai, E., Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa.
Policy learning, capacity building and the OECD, Carroll, P., University of Tasmania.		 Concurrent Panels Session 3B: Delivering services through networked government

Chair: Dr Joanne Kelly, University of Sydney.

Finding the key to unlock successful Aboriginal community governance: case studies of three Aboriginal Councils in North Queensland, Limerick, M., Griffith University.
Capacity building and service delivery of relationship support in Australia, van Acker, L., Griffith University.
Sustainability of network governance: stakeholder influence, Beach, S., Queensland University of Technology.

Concurrent Panels Session 4A: Engaging the community: who, what and why?                               

Chair: Associate Professor Rodney Smith, University of Sydney (TBC)

Can community be organised? Adams, D., University of Tasmania.
Community planning: lessons from local government in Victoria, West, S., University of Melbourne & Raysmith, H., RMIT University.
3.15pm -3.45pm Afternoon Break
3.45pm -4.45pm Session Five: Crossing the “pracademic” divide: messages to the main conference
Chair: Professor Paul Posner, Director, Masters of Public Administration Program, George Mason University, Washington DC, USA, and President-Elect, American Society of Public Administration (ASPA)
Reporters/Discussants: Associate Professor Rodney Smith, Dr Anne Tiernan, Chris Walker and  Dr Joanne Kelly.
  • Key messages from the panels(chairs)
  • Roundtable discussion and priority-setting
  • Report up through tables - messages to the main conference
 
4.45pm -5.00pm

Concluding comments and thanks - Dr Joanne Kelly, University of Sydney and IPAA NSW Council Member 

6.00pm -8.00pm Welcome reception - Cocktails