Bill Gray
Views From The Top of the 'Quiet Revolution' (Streaming Audio)
Topical Issue 1 / 2006
March 2006 -
In February 2005, Minister Amanda Vanstone addressed the National Press Club on the new arrangements in Indigenous affairs. She identified these new arrangements as a 'quiet revolution in Indigenous affairs'. Within the context of the new arrangements, the Australian Public Service is undergoing some major changes in the way in which it seeks to develop and implement policy in relation to Indigenous affairs.
Views from the top of the ‘quiet revolution’: Secretarial perspectives on the new arrangements in Indigenous affairs
Discussion Paper 282 / 2006
Abstract:
In the latter months of 2005 we interviewed eleven members of the Commonwealth Government’s Secretaries Group on Indigenous Affairs about their experiences of the new arrangements in Indigenous affairs since July 2004. This paper reports on the findings from those interviews under ten subheadings relating to various aspects of the new arrangements, ranging from the Ministerial Taskforce and the National Indigenous Council to Indigenous Coordination Centres and local and regional agreement making. In its latter sections the paper also offers some commentary and analysis.
