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Political Management in Australia: The Case of the Northern Territory
Author(s) -
Heatley Alistair
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
australian journal of public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.524
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-8500
pISSN - 0313-6647
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8500.1996.tb01200.x
Subject(s) - politics , bureaucracy , public administration , executive power , government (linguistics) , political science , theme (computing) , work (physics) , power (physics) , northern territory , sociology , ethnology , law , mechanical engineering , philosophy , linguistics , physics , quantum mechanics , computer science , engineering , operating system
This article reviews the evolution of administrative arrangements in the Northern Territory since the 1970s, covering both the devolutionary phase and, with somewhat more emphasis, the self‐government period since 1978. The article centres on the theme of political management which, as in the recent work by Halligan and Power (1992), has become a major focus in the study of Australian administrative reform. Political management involves a ‘modernising reform agenda. internal in orientation and concerned mainly with making the organizational and human resources of the executive branch more responsive to the priorities of superordinates’ (Halligan and Power 1992: 249). Particular attention here is given to the evolving pattern of relationships between the political and bureaucratic arms of the Northern Territory executive.