Australia faces major challenges to its forms of governance.
Changing expectations from its citizens, global pressures on the
economy and technological innovation are impacting on government
operations. Yet most of its institutions were designed a hundred
years ago. Cabinet government was inherited. Parliament was already
established in its forms and procedures. The federal structure, the
High Court and the federal public service were created as a
consequence. The party structure has been effectively frozen since
the 1920s and a tradition of handing some responsibilities to
arms-length organisations was well established. So how have these
institutions changed over the last hundred years and how well will
they adapt to the demands of the modern world? Do they have the
capacity to adapt appropriately and enable governments to achieve
their preferred outcomes? In this book experienced academics and
practitioners explore these questions. They examine each of the
institutions in terms of their ability to meet new challenges and
provide some hope that Australia's institutions, even if at times
slow to move and dominated by internal interests, have a capacity
to adapt and govern effectively. The book shows our political
institutions in a new light, as dynamic, often flexible organisms;
it provides important new insights into the way we are governed and
how our system of governance might develop in the future.
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