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E-government is far too often taken to mean ‘government business as usual’ plus the internet. This paper puts forward the basis for an alternative orientation, locating e-government against a background of profound social changes.

This study examines the global trend in shifting university costs from national governments to individual students and families, with a specific focus on the existing cost-sharing model in Australian higher education. The Australian system is worthy of consideration by other nations as a possible mechanism for enhancing access to higher education for individuals who might otherwise not possess ...

Australia’s National Strategy for VET 2004-2010 calls for a client-centred and innovative vocational training system of world class standard. An important strategy to achieve this goal is to build the capability of both public and private registered training organisations. The Consortium, “Supporting VET providers in building capability for the future”, was established to conduct research that ...

Although there have been many grand visions for the transformative capacity of e-Government initiatives, the actual realization of these visions has met with mixed results. This paper argues that current approaches to appraising the benefits and consequences of e-government initiatives are constrained by a narrow technologically determinist perspective focused on ICT investment rather than poli...

Rural, regional and remote (R-3) communities are generally in decline in Australia and in some other countries in the Western world. The economic problems include a decline in agriculture as competitive countries protect their domestic industry by subsidies and high tariffs. This paper examines the economic situation of these communities on four levels. These are the policy level (the Australia...

This paper sets up two competing frameworks to assess the evidence of the CAP reforms of the 1980s and 1990s. The two frameworks differ in the degree of prominence given to interest groups in affecting CAP decisions. The paper concludes that the most important mechanism behind CAP reforms is the interaction of EU institutions and member state governments. Interest groups, at national or EU-leve...

SINCE THE PASSAGE of California’s Proposition 13 in 1978, tax and expenditure limitation measures (TELs) have been widely used for altering the revenue systems of state and local governments (Joyce and Mullins 1991). Oregon’s Ballot Measure 5, a TEL passed in 1990, provides an opportunity to (1) identify some of the effects of a TEL on local governments and (2) examine how local officials try t...

One of the principal elements of the economic reforms program initiated in 1991 was to reduce the fiscal deficit of the central government which, at that time, faced a solvency crisis. This reduction was at least partially achieved by reducing transfers to state governments. As a result, state government budgets faced crises and agriculture, being largely a state subject, was denied adequate in...