Australia and New Zealand Public Policy Network Conference 2017 Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia Victoria Square Campus 30 January - 2 February 2017 Program at a glance: Monday, 30 Jan 2017 10am-4:30pm: Research Higher Degree presentations and workshop 5:30-8:30pm: Welcome reception for all participants; Presentation by Dr Susan Close, SA Minister for Education and Child Development and Minister for Higher Education and Skills Tuesday, 31 Jan 2017 9am-5pm: Panel presentations 6pm-8pm: Optional dinner (not included in registration fee; venue TBA) Wednesday, 1 Feb 2017 9am-5:15pm: Panel presentations Thursday, 2 February 2017 9am-12pm: Special Workshop hosted by Kate Crowley, Jenny Stewart and Brian Head: Public Policy Reconsidered: Complexity, Governance & the State
Monday, 30 January 2017 Level 2, Room 3 Discussant 1: Environment Jim Donaldson, Australian National University What does an environmental policy mean? Some dilemmas, conundrums and paradoxes in public policy making in Australia 10:00-11:45 Veronica Bullock, Australian National University Orderly, path dependent and unsuited to 21st century needs and abilities: the case of Australian Government heritage policymaking Peter Tangney, Flinders University Cathy Alexander, University of Melbourne The durability trap: how to enact public-interest reforms that will stick 11:45-12:45 Lunch 2: Policy Design 12:45-2:30 Mark Dean, University of Adelaide Small bars won t replace making cars: a critical inquiry into the shortcomings of South Australian government policy responses to deindustrialisation in a neoliberal political economy Graham Smith, University of Canberra Why performance measurement systems do not perform Germana Nicklin, Massey University Rob Manwaring, Flinders University Lorraine Cherney, University of Queensland Regulation as a Negotiated Outcome: The Case of Gambling Regulation in Queensland 2:30-2:45 Tea Break 3: Policy Effectiveness 2:45-4:30 Sarah Warner, University of Queensland The in/visible representation of student experience in NAPLAN Policy Documents Prudence Brown, University of Queensland A spanner in the works? Cultivating mindsets open to collaboration in remote Indigenous Australia Diana Perche, Macquarie University Yvonne Haigh, Murdoch University Michele Ferguson, University of Queensland Reconsidering pathways to policy impact 5:30-8:30 Welcome reception for all participants Presentation by Dr Susan Close, Minister for Education and Child Development and Minister for Higher Education and Skills
Tuesday, 31 January 2017 Level 2, Room 2/3 Evidence and Policy Diana Perche, Macquarie University It s all been said before. Moving from evidence to policy change in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander incarceration and criminal justice 9:00-10:45 Peter Tangney, Flinders University Risk-based approaches to evidence-based policy Valarie Sands, Deirdre O Neill, and Graeme Hodge Monash University Revisiting the Introduction of Competition into Prison Systems: Searching for an Optimal Prison Regulatory Model 10:45-11:00 Morning Tea Roundtable: Teaching Public Policy 11:00-12:15 Rob Manwaring, Flinders University Martin Drum, University of Notre Dame Australia Brian Coffey, RMIT Jennifer Lees-Marchment, University of Auckland 12:15-1:15 Lunch Economic Policy Omi Ongge, University of Bristol The individual policy preferences toward FDI-Development nexus in Indonesia 1:15-3:00 Michael de Percy, University of Canberra Restructuring Protected Industries: The efficacy of policy responses to disruption in the sugar, automotive manufacturing and taxi sectors Germana Nicklin, Massey University Understanding economic security: narrative effects and policy choices at the New Zealand border 3:00-3:15 Afternoon Tea Energy and Environment Brian Coffey, RMIT Unpacking politicians views about environmental policy, and what this means for environmental governance 3:15-5:00 Julie MacArthur, University of Auckland Renewable Energy Policy Dismantling in Aotearoa/New Zealand Paul Fawcett, Michael J. Jensen, and Hedda Ransan-Cooper University of Canberra Arguing about coal seam gas: frame conflicts over the future of fracking in Australia Yvonne Haigh, Murdoch University The Australian Energy Sector: justice, rights and the Australian political context Optional Dinner: Venue TBA
Wednesday, 1 February 2017 Level 2, Room 2/3 Processes of Policy-Making Linda Botterill, University of Canberra, Geoff Cockfield, University of Southern Queensland Alan Fenna, Curtin University The Stages Heuristic: The Origins, Uses and Misuses of the Policy Cycle 9:00-10:45 Diane Stone, University of Canberra The Transnational Policy Entrepreneur: Conflict Analysis, Informal Diplomacy and the International Crisis Group Emma Blomkamp, University of Melbourne The Promise of Co-Design for Public Policy Martin Drum and Daniel Baldino, University of Notre Dame Australia The role of the media in foreign policy making 10:45-11:00 Morning Tea Roundtable: What's the Problem Represented to Be? 11:00-12:00 Carol Bacchi, University of Adelaide Gerry Redmond, Flinders University Joshua Newman, Flinders University 12:00-1:00 Lunch Networks, Collaboration, and Multi-Level Governance Diego Fossati, Griffith University Health policy reform in multi-level political systems: Evidence from Indonesia 1:00-2:45 John Phillimore, Curtin University What does COAG talk about? An analysis of COAG communiqués, 1992-2016 Tim Tenbensel, University of Auckland Towards a Population Genetics Framework for Understanding the Dynamics of Hierarchies, Markets, Networks and Community Governance Types Sharon Zivkovic, UniSA Encouraging street-level bureaucrats to support self-organising governance networks 2:45-3:00 Afternoon Tea The Public Service Adam Graycar, Flinders University Administering the Commissioner for the Ageing Act (1984) 3:00-4:45 John Halligan, University of Canberra Policy Capability in the Australia Public Service Maria Maley, ANU Managing the movement of staff between ministers offices and departments in Australia and Canada 4:45-5:15 Business Meeting and Presentation of Geoff Anderson Award
Thursday, 2 February 2017 Level 2, Room 3 Public Policy Reconsidered: Complexity, Governance & the State 9:00-12:00 Special workshop hosted by Kate Crowley (University of Tasmania), Jenny Stewart (UNSW Canberra at ADFA) and Brian Head (University of Queensland)