Australian environmental policy making in transition : the rise and fall of the resource assessment commission
By: NICHOLAS, Economou
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ArticlePublisher: Oxford : Blackwell Publishers Limited, March 1996Australian Journal of Public Administration 55, 1, p. 12-22Abstract: In November 1993 the Resource Assessment Commission (RAC) handed down its final report after only four years of operation. This article accounts for the demise of a body that was formed by the Hawke government in a bid to solve some pressing meatapolicy problems associated with national land-used and resource policy-making. The article argues that the RAC's demise was due not only to its propensity to hand down politically controversial findings, but also as a result of the changing political environments caused by significant administrative reorganisation caused by the leadership transition from the consensus-oriented style of Bob Hawke to the more adversarial style of Paul Keating
In November 1993 the Resource Assessment Commission (RAC) handed down its final report after only four years of operation. This article accounts for the demise of a body that was formed by the Hawke government in a bid to solve some pressing meatapolicy problems associated with national land-used and resource policy-making. The article argues that the RAC's demise was due not only to its propensity to hand down politically controversial findings, but also as a result of the changing political environments caused by significant administrative reorganisation caused by the leadership transition from the consensus-oriented style of Bob Hawke to the more adversarial style of Paul Keating
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