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With Your Support, We Shine!
Annual report 2019-2020 With your support, we shine! www.awcancertrust.org.au OUR MISSION To raise funds to support cancer services in the Albury- Wodonga region to provide quality care to patients and families. OUR PURPOSE To actively support and promote fundraising opportunities in our local communities and engage with local businesses and organisations to obtain sponsorship of the Albury Wodonga Regional Cancer Centre. To work closely with key stakeholders of the Albury Wodonga Regional Cancer Centre to pro- vide funding support for their identified needs and priorities. To proactively contribute to improvement in cancer care by providing funds to purchase special- ist equipment and resources. To encourage the training of care-based professionals by supporting ongoing professional de- velopment and training programs. To help local cancer patients access leading treatment options through participation in clinical trials. To invest Trust Funds in accordance with accepted government guidelines. To operate the Trust Fund in accordance with the requirements of the constitution. WHERE DONATIONS GO The Albury Wodonga Regional Cancer Centre Trust Fund will allocate donations to the areas most in need. Our four key priority areas for funding are: New life-saving medical equipment; Staff training and development; Cancer research through clinical trials; and, Wellness Centre and support programs. CHAIR’S REPORT Despite challenges faced by our region this financial year, the Albury Wodonga Regional Cancer Centre Trust Fund continued to build on its fundraising efforts and investment in local cancer services. Thanks to the incredible generosity of our community, we were able to raise a record $1.3 million in 2019-2020. -
Not Biting the Hand That Feeds
Theories for understanding government advertising in Australia Sally Young Media and Communications Program The University of Melbourne In recent weeks, there has been increased commentary on government advertising as a result of the Howard government running some controversial ads on its planned industrial relations changes. Although the full IR campaign has not yet hit full steam, it is estimated that the total campaign will cost at least $20 million and possibly even $100 million.1 This is part of a pattern which, in recent years, has seen Australian governments dramatically increase their spending on advertising—particularly on television.2 The federal government now spends at least $100 million per year on government advertising and, in 1999-00, as a result of high spending on advertising the new Goods and Services Tax (GST), spent a record $211 million.3 There are a number of theories which can help us to understand this trend and these originate from a range of disciplinary perspectives including political science, legal studies, media and journalism studies. Each suggests conceptual frameworks for analysing this phenomenon and each emphasises different aspects of the problem. 1 Schubert, Misha, 2005, ‘Work law ad blitz may cost $100m’, the Age, 5 August. 2 Young, Sally, 2004, The Persuaders: Inside the Hidden Machine of Political Advertising, North Melbourne, Pluto Press, pp.122-39. 3 Grant, Richard, 2003-04, ‘Research Note no.62 2003-04: Federal government advertising’, Canberra, Parliamentary Library, Parliament of Australia. -
Alan Oakley Sent: Thursday, 15 May 2008 5:08 PM To: Joanne Puccini Subject: RE: Media Watch Query
From: Alan Oakley Sent: Thursday, 15 May 2008 5:08 PM To: Joanne Puccini Subject: RE: Media watch query Hi Joanne, Thanks for the inquiry. I never discuss why something is or isn't published, suffice to say it's called editing and it happens daily. I don't discuss the performance of individual journalists in a public forum; I find it more constructive to talk to them. I don't discuss how reporters are briefed for assignments; only they need to know. regards, Alan From: Joanne Puccini Sent: Thursday, 15 May 2008 12:54 PM To: Alan Oakley; Sue Ritchie Subject: Media watch query Alan Oakley Editor The Sydney Morning Herald By email 15 May 2008 Dear Alan, On Saturday May 10th, The Age published a lengthy "farewell" report by Fairfax's departing Middle East correspondent Ed O'Loughlin. We understand that the same piece, albeit perhaps subbed somewhat differently, was due to be published in the Sydney Morning Herald's News Review section the same day. However, it did not appear and has not been published subsequently in the Herald. - Could you tell us why you decided not to run this report in The Sydney Morning Herald? There has been frequent criticism of Mr O’Loughlin’s reporting by some supporters of Israel, who appear to believe that he is overly critical of Israel and the IDF, overly sympathetic to the Palestinian point of view, and insufficiently critical of Hamas. (For example, by Michael Danby MP; Mr Tzvi Fleischer, Editor-in-Chief of AIJAC’s Australia/Israel Review; and by AIJAC’s Jamie Hyams, to name a few.) - Did these criticisms of his reporting by the so-called “Jewish/Israel lobby” in any way influence your decision not to run Ed O'Loughlin's final report? Shortly after the announcement of his appointment to replace Ed O’Loughlin as Fairfax’s Jerusalem-based Middle East correspondent, Jason Koutsoukis was reported by the Australian Jewish News as saying: “There's two sides to every story and I think we've got to tell both sides. -
House of Representatives By-Elections 1901–2008
Parliament of Australia Department of Parliamentary Services Parliamentary Library Information, analysis and advice for the Parliament RESEARCH PAPER www.aph.gov.au/library 22 September 2008, no. 7, 2008–09, ISSN 1834-9854 House of Representatives by-elections 1901–2008 Scott Bennett Politics and Public Administration Section Gerard Newman Formerly Statistics and Mapping Section Executive summary This paper details of House of Representatives by-elections held from that for Darling Downs on 14 September 1901 to the most recent held on 6 September 2008 for Lyne and Mayo: • There have been 144 by-elections, an average of 3.5 per parliament. • The number of nominations has grown over the years from 2.2 per by-election to 10.4 per by-election. • In only four cases was a by-election contested by just a single candidate. • An increasing tendency has been for governments to avoid contesting by-elections in their opponents’ safe seats. • In only seven cases has the Opposition party failed to contest a by-election. • Sixty-seven of the by-elections followed the death of the member, 71 members resigned, there have been five voided elections, and one MP was expelled from the House. • Since 1949 most by-elections have been caused by the resignation of the sitting member and have occurred in safe seats. • On 35 occasions the party complexion of a seat has altered at a by-election. • Five of the losses have been by the Opposition of the day. • The average two-party preferred swing against the government of the day has been 4.0 per cent. -
15 February 2008
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA Official Hansard 20TH ANNIVERSARY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE SYSTEM FRIDAY, 15 FEBRUARY 2008 CANBERRA BY AUTHORITY OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Friday, 15 February 2008 HOR COMMS 1 Seminar commenced at 9.05 am Participants ANDREWS, The Hon. Kevin, MP BARRIE, Mr Keith DUNCAN, Mr Tom HALLIGAN, Professor John HARRIS, Mr Ian, AO HAWKER, Mr David, MP HULL, Mrs Kay, MP JACOBS, Professor Kerry JENKINS, The Hon. Harry, MP LANGMORE, Professor John LARKIN, Dr Philip LEYNE, Ms Siobhan LINDELL, Professor Geoffrey MARSH, Professor Ian MARTIN, Professor the Hon. Stephen MONK, Mr David SAWFORD, Mr Rod STEPHENS, The Hon. Tom THOMSON, Mr Kelvin, MP WEBBER, Ms Robyn ZAPPIA, Mr Tony 20TH ANNIVERSARY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEES HOR COMMS 2 Friday, 15 February 2008 The SPEAKER—Members of the Commonwealth Parliament of Australia, members of state and territory parliaments, ladies and gentlemen, friends one and all: this morning I have the great pleasure of welcoming you to a seminar to mark 20 years of the operation of the House of Representatives system of general purpose standing committees. Some have said that, at the end of the sort of week we have had in this place, perhaps this is the last thing I would want to do. Can I say most definitely that this is something that I would not have missed because if there is anything that has driven me over 22 years as a member of the House of Representatives it has been very much the work of the committees. I would like to add to what I believe others will say: our committee system in the House is much undervalued. -
Responding to the Challenge
Responding Annual Report 2019/20 to the challenge Contents 01 About Us 02 Message from the Chairman 03 The Year in Review 04 202 John Monash Scholars 05 2020 Selection Analysis 06 2020 Scholarship Selection Process 07 2020 John Monash Scholars 12 Where Are They Now? 16 Impact 19 Publications and Awards 20 Events and Activities 23 John Monash Scholars’ Global Symposium 24 Governance 26 Foundation Members 27 Foundation Volunteers 28 Financial Highlights 30 Thank You 32 Partners and Supporters About Us Our mission is to invest in outstanding disciplines, possess a distinct General Sir John Australians from all fields of endeavour capacity for leadership Monash: the and are making significant who demonstrate remarkable qualities of contributions to Australia’s guiding spirit of leadership and have the ability to deliver future as scientists, academics, the Foundation outcomes and inspire others for the artists, business leaders, General Sir John Monash benefit of Australia. entrepreneurs, lawyers and was born in 1865 to Jewish policy experts. The General Sir John John Monash Scholars migrant parents from Prussia. Monash Foundation was General Sir John Monash said, He was educated at Scotch The General Sir John Monash established in 2001 with an ‘The privilege of education College in Melbourne and at Foundation supports initial contribution from the carries great responsibilities the University of Melbourne, exceptional scholars capable where he gained degrees in Australian Federal Government – it is given not for individual of identifying and tackling the Engineering, Law and Arts. together with further benefit alone, but to befit challenges of our time. We seek As a citizen soldier, he led contributions from corporate persons for the higher duties women and men of vision, the Australian Army Corps in supporters and private donors. -
Law Review L
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Howard Government Retrospective II
Howard Government Retrospective II “To the brink: 1997 - 2001” Articles by Professor Tom Frame 14 - 15 November 2017 Howard Government Retrospective II The First and Second Howard Governments Initial appraisals and assessments Professor Tom Frame Introduction I have reviewed two contemporaneous treatments Preamble of the first Howard Government. Unlike other Members of the Coalition parties frequently complain retrospectives, these two works focussed entirely on that academics and journalists write more books about the years 1996-1998. One was published in 1997 the Australian Labor Party (ALP) than about Liberal- and marked the first anniversary of the Coalition’s National governments and their leaders. For instance, election victory. The other was published in early three biographical studies had been written about Mark 2000 when the consequences of some first term Latham who was the Opposition leader for a mere decisions and policies were becoming a little clearer. fourteen months (December 2003 to February 2005) Both books are collections of essays that originated when only one book had appeared about John Howard in university faculties and concentrated on questions and he had been prime minister for nearly a decade. of public administration. The contributions to both Certainly, publishers believe that books about the Labor volumes are notable for the consistency of their tone Party (past and present) are usually more successful and tenor. They are not partisan works although there commercially than works on the Coalition parties. The is more than a hint of suspicion that the Coalition sales figures would seem to suggest that history and was tampering with the institutions that undergirded ideas mean more to some Labor followers than to public authority and democratic government in Coalition supporters or to Australian readers generally. -
The Vultures Will Be Hovering Again Soon Enough, As Bill Shorten Begins to Stumble Date September 21, 2015 - 5:58AM
The vultures will be hovering again soon enough, as Bill Shorten begins to stumble Date September 21, 2015 - 5:58AM Paul Sheehan Sydney Morning Herald columnist Disability deserves its own ministry: Shorten Opposition leader Bill Shorten says he is disappointed Malcolm Turnbull's new ministry does not feature a minister for disability. Courtesy ABC News 24. It is only natural that the vultures will grow hungry again soon. They have become accustomed to kings becoming carrion. In the past 20 years Paul Keating, Kim Beazley, Simon Crean, Mark Latham, Beazley again, John Howard, Brendan Nelson, Malcolm Turnbull, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Rudd again, and now Tony Abbott have all been felled, a procession of change, on average, every 20 months, for 20 years. It shows no sign of slowing. In this context, the Canning by-election could have been called the Cunning by- election. It gave a clear, vindicating victory for Malcolm Turnbull's brazen, lightning coup. So now the vultures will soon be hovering over the obvious loser, Bill Shorten, who made a serious blunder last week that puts him on carrion watch. Having hovered over Abbott for months, the vultures will be riding the political thermals and circling in the sky, watching for Shorten to falter. He just became much more vulnerable. He has never been popular in the opinion polls. He has rarely been impressive in parliament. He was especially unimpressive in the three sitting days leading up to the Canning by-election. On Tuesday, in his first question to the new Prime Minister, Shorten finished -
Digital Edition
AUSTRALIA/ISRAEL REVIEW VOLUME 45 No. 4 APRIL 2020 AUSTRALIA/ISRAEL & JEWISH AFFAIRS COUNCIL A DIFFERENT SORT OF WAR Israel’s military enters the battle against coronavirus THE OTHER CONTAGION PULLING TOGETHER RIGHT RISING THE APARTHEID LIE An epidemic of coronavirus conspiracy The pandemic leads Australia’s white How anti-Israel to vastly improved supremacist activists misappro- theories ............................................... PAGE 21 Israeli-Palestinian problem ........PAGE 27 priate South Africa’s relations .......... PAGE 7 history ........... PAGE 31 WITH COMPLIMENTS NAME OF SECTION L1 26 BEATTY AVENUE ARMADALE VIC 3143 TEL: (03) 9661 8250 FAX: (03) 9661 8257 WITH COMPLIMENTS 2 AIR – April 2020 AUSTRALIA/ISRAEL VOLUME 45 No. 4 REVIEW APRIL 2020 EDITOR’S NOTE NAME OF SECTION his AIR edition focuses on the Israeli response to the extraordinary global coronavirus ON THE COVER Tpandemic – with a view to what other nations, such as Australia, can learn from the Israeli Border Police patrol Israeli experience. the streets of Jerusalem, 25 The cover story is a detailed look, by security journalist Alex Fishman, at how the IDF March 2020. Israeli authori- has been mobilised to play a part in Israel’s COVID-19 response – even while preparing ties have tightened citizens’ to meet external threats as well. In addition, Amotz Asa-El provides both a timeline of movement restrictions to Israeli measures to meet the coronavirus crisis, and a look at how Israel’s ongoing politi- prevent the spread of the coronavirus that causes the cal standoff has continued despite it. Plus, military reporter Anna Ahronheim looks at the COVID-19 disease. (Photo: Abir Sultan/AAP) cooperation the emergency has sparked between Israel and the Palestinians. -
Denying the Public's Right to Know
Denying the Public’s Right to Know A critique of the operation of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 Prepared for Kelvin Thomson MP, Shadow Minister for Public Accountability, by Michal Alhadeff, Intern, Australian National Internships Program October 2006 1 “Information about government operations is not, after all, some kind of ‘favour’ to be bestowed by a benevolent government or to be extorted from a reluctant bureaucracy. It is, quite simply, a public right.” - Bob Hawke, 1983 2 ABBREVIATIONS AAT Administrative Appeals Tribunal ALRC Australian Law Reform Commission APC Australian Press Council ARC Administrative Review Council AusAID Australian Agency for International Development AWB AWB Limited (formerly the Australian Wheat Board) DFAT Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade OFF Oil-for-Food Programme UN United Nations US United States of America $AU Australian Dollar Value 3 PREFACE The impetus for this report stemmed from a series of fruitless Freedom of Information requests submitted by Shadow Minister for Public Accountability, Kelvin Thomson MP. The requests sought the disclosure of information relating to government knowledge of the AU$290m in kickbacks funnelled to the Iraqi regime by AWB Limited (AWB). The failure of FOI laws to produce any substantive information about an issue which ignited such significant public interest compelled this study of FOI in Australia. This report is concerned solely with FOI as it relates to requests for non- personal information. There is academic consensus that treatment of this type of request provides the most telling critique of an FOI system.1 Thus Thomson’s AWB-related claims, being contentious and topical, provide an appropriate case study through which to consider Australia’s FOI regime. -
Ministerial Careers and Accountability in the Australian Commonwealth Government / Edited by Keith Dowding and Chris Lewis
AND MINISTERIAL CAREERS ACCOUNTABILITYIN THE AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT AND MINISTERIAL CAREERS ACCOUNTABILITYIN THE AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT Edited by Keith Dowding and Chris Lewis Published by ANU E Press The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200, Australia Email: [email protected] This title is also available online at http://epress.anu.edu.au National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Title: Ministerial careers and accountability in the Australian Commonwealth government / edited by Keith Dowding and Chris Lewis. ISBN: 9781922144003 (pbk.) 9781922144010 (ebook) Series: ANZSOG series Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: Politicians--Australia. Politicians--Australia--Ethical behavior. Political ethics--Australia. Politicians--Australia--Public opinion. Australia--Politics and government. Australia--Politics and government--Public opinion. Other Authors/Contributors: Dowding, Keith M. Lewis, Chris. Dewey Number: 324.220994 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Cover design and layout by ANU E Press Printed by Griffin Press This edition © 2012 ANU E Press Contents 1. Hiring, Firing, Roles and Responsibilities. 1 Keith Dowding and Chris Lewis 2. Ministers as Ministries and the Logic of their Collective Action . 15 John Wanna 3. Predicting Cabinet Ministers: A psychological approach ..... 35 Michael Dalvean 4. Democratic Ambivalence? Ministerial attitudes to party and parliamentary scrutiny ........................... 67 James Walter 5. Ministerial Accountability to Parliament ................ 95 Phil Larkin 6. The Pattern of Forced Exits from the Ministry ........... 115 Keith Dowding, Chris Lewis and Adam Packer 7. Ministers and Scandals .........................