New directions in royal commissions & public inquiries : do we need them? / edited by Scott Prasser.

Cleveland, Qld. : Connor Court Publishing, 2023.

1st edition

202376

Tribunals and inquiries -- Australia.

Public inquiries -- Australia.

Governmental investigations -- Australia.

Introduction: Why another book on public inquiries?

Section 1: Inquiries – their place in Australian history

1. Trends in public inquiries in Australia

2. Royal commissions of the Bruce-Page government, 1923–29

3. Australian tax inquiries: forms, processes, and impacts

Section 2: Inquiries in action: what they do and how they do it

4. Developments in Victoria since the commencement of the Inquiries Act 2014

5. The multiple uses of evidence in public inquiries

6. Drowning in data: The Queensland Floods Commission of Inquiry

7. The 2018-19 Thodey Review into the Australian Public Service: a lost opportunity

8. Fit for the future: public inquiries and NSW local government

Section 3: Impacts of inquiries

9. Measuring public inquiry success

10. Impacts: are inquiries worth it?

11. The fiscal implications of public inquiries

12. Protecting children at risk: the limitations of public inquiries in organisational learning from child deaths

13. Can – and should – royal commissions provide policy advice?

Section 4: Other countries' inquiries – experiences and lessons

14. Judge-led public inquiries in the United Kingdom: the gold standard?

15. Learning through hindsight: New Zealand's statutory inquiries

16. US Presidential Commissions: an update

17. Commissions of inquiry in the Nordic countries

Section 5: Conclusions: where to next with inquiries?

18. So where to next for public inquiries?

This new edited volume has been developed because governments in Australia and overseas continue to appoint public inquiries in considerable numbers. Public inquiries are those temporary, ad hoc bodies appointed by executive government to report on corruption, calamitous events and many different policy issues. Using Australian and international case studies, this new volume explores why royal commissions and public inquiries are appointed, their processes and their impacts. It provides an up-to-date review of current Australian and international developments. Contributors include leading academic specialists and practitioners from across Australian and international jurisdictions. - Publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781922815255

403 pages ; 23 cm