ANNUAL ORATION

Lining up the ducks: a rare insight into how impossible policies become possible Wednesday 11 May 5.30 – 6.30pm

Speakers Rt Hon Former Secretary of State for Health, UK Government Professor Bruce Chapman Crawford School of Public Policy Dr Ken Henry Chair, Sir Roland Wilson Foundation Location Common Room, University House Introducing policy innovation requires good design, good timing and 1 Balmain Crescent, Acton sometimes just plain old good luck. Registration required Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt, Professor Bruce Chapman and Dr Ken Henry will reflect on their experiences of how power, politics and personality have influenced the ability to www.eventbrite.com.au introduce innovative policy both here in Australia and in the UK. Using examples such as the policy response to the Global Financial Crisis, the This lecture is free and open to the public Higher Education Contribution Scheme and the UK’s Congestion Charge, they will explore what did and didn’t work in these contexts, the personalities involved and what lessons can be drawn for introducing future complex policies. Patricia Hewitt served in ’s Cabinet as Secretary of State for Health (2005-2007), Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and Cabinet Minister for Women (both 2001 - 2005). She introduced the smoking ban, legislated to give parents and carers the right to work shorter hours and introduced ‘say on pay’ votes for company shareholders. A fourth- generation Australian who was born and brought up in , Patricia went to Cambridge Presented by as an undergraduate. Her father, Sir Lenox Hewitt, had a long and distinguished career in the Australian Public Service and as chairman of Qantas. Sir Roland Wilson Bruce Chapman is a Professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the ANU. He Foundation has extensive experience in public policy having helped design the HECS policy, as a senior economic adviser to Prime Minister , and as an adviser to the World bank, the OECD and the governments of a large number of countries. The Sir Roland Wilson Foundation was Ken Henry is the Chair of the Sir Roland Wilson Foundation. He served as the Secretary established in 1999 with donations from of the Department of the from 2001 to 2011 and was Chair of both the Howard the ANU and the Wilson family estate Government’s Taxation Taskforce (1997-1998) and the Review into Australia’s Future Tax to advance the study and development System commissioned by the Rudd Government (2008-09). He is currently the Chair of the of public policy and management within National Australia Bank. Australia and internationally.

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