PPN 2012 Draft Programme
Public Policy Network Conference 2012
25 - 27 January 2012
Rydges on Swanston, Swanston Street, Melbourne
Host: University of Melbourne
Convenor: Helen Sullivan
Presenters, please ensure that you arrive at the venue at least 5 minutes before the commencement of your session. Upon arrival please confirm your attendance with Conference Reception and familiarize yourself with the venue
Wednesday 25th Jan
5pm - 6.30pm Informal welcome drinks, Blues Bar - Rydges Hotel
Thursday 26th Jan
| Session Time | Author | Title |
| 8.45 | Helen Sullivan | Opening address & welcome |
| Values, problems and evidence in policy | ||
|---|---|---|
| 9.00 | Linda Botterill, Geoff Cockfield and Lawrence Pratchett | Ideas, ideologies, values and beliefs: desperately seeking definitional clarity |
| 9.30 | Brian Head, Adrian Cherney and Paul Boreham | The role of academics in influencing policy: aspirations and impacts |
| 10.00 | Liz van Acker | Australian policy responses to the 'problem' of the decline of marriage |
| 10.30 | Morning Tea– Swanston Lounge | |
| Deciding and governing in difficult times | ||
| 11.00 | Adam Graycar | Does corruption affect public policy |
| 11.30 | Kate Crowley | Governing climate change: the role of advisory councils |
| 12.00 | Linda Colley | Decision making in a crisis: Employment strategies of Australian state governments for their own workforces |
| 12.30 | Lunch - Rydges Restaurant | |
| Contested policy directions | ||
| 1.30 | John Phillimore and Alan Tapper | Prevention based approaches to social policy |
| 2.00 | Geoff Cockfield | The Murray-Darling Basin Plan as post-productivist policy |
| 2.30 | Brian Coffey | 'Protecting the environment' or 'locking up the coast': Unpacking recent controversies associated with consideration of Marine Protected Areas in Australia |
| 3.00 | Afternoon Tea - Swanston Lounge | |
| Implementation and agency | ||
| 3.30 | Tim Tenbensel, Peter Carswell, Linda Chalmers and Esther Willing | Differential policy implementation: How and why the same policy directives have different consequences in different contexts |
| 4.00 | Tom Dick et al | Intellectual property policy in Vanuatu |
| 4.30 | Timothy P Fadgen | Foreign and indigenous professionals and their networks: a critical analysis of mental health policy and law transfer in Samoa and Tonga |
| 6.30- 9.00 |
Conference Dinner
Rydges Hotel - Bouverie Room Speaker Dr Helen Szoke, Race Discrimination Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission |
Friday 27th Jan
| Session Time | Author | Title |
| Stability and change in public policy | ||
| 9.00 | Alan Fenna and Alan Tapper | Welfare State Retrenchment in Australia? |
| 9.30 | Keith Dowding, Andrew Hindmoor, Aaron Martin and Adam Packer | The Australian policy agendas project: introduction and reflections |
| 10.00 | John Halligan | Emergent bureaucratisation within the Australian public service |
| 10.30 | Morning Tea - Swanston Lounge | |
|---|---|---|
| Power and politics in policy | ||
| 11.00 | Aynsley Kellow | Arenas of power in an era of global governance |
| 11.30 | Paul Fawcett | Comparing competing conceptualizations of the British state: Metagovernance and the asymmetric power model |
| 12.00 | Scott Brenton | The impact of Green Parties on policy responses to climate change |
| 12.30 | Lunch - Rydges Restaurant | |
| 1.30 – 3.00 | Convenor Helen Sullivan; Chair Glyn Davis, V-C University of Melbourne |
Public Policy in the 'Asian century'
Joint Session with SOG |
| 3.00 | Afternoon Tea – Swanston Lounge | |
| Constitutional dilemmas | ||
| 3.30 | Grant Duncan | Constitutional challenges in New Zealand |
| 4.00 | John Power | Fiducial governance in a presidentialist regime: The West Wing as a vehicle for constitutional reform |
| 4.30 | PPN 2013 and General Business | |
| 5.00 | Conference close |