NICHOLAS, Economou <br/><br/>
Australian environmental policy making in transition :  the rise and fall of the resource assessment commission 

 - Oxford :  Blackwell Publishers Limited,  March 1996 
<br/><br/> 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