Collaborative Governance: A New Era of Public Policy in Australia?

Contributors......Page 9
Networked governance and collaboration to improve outcomes......Page 11
Editors’ introduction......Page 15
Part 1. Setting the scene: challenges and prospects for collaboration......Page 17
Meanings and dimensions of collaboration......Page 19
Changing patterns of collaboration in public policy: historical eras......Page 21
Drivers of collaboration today......Page 24
Advantages and opportunities versus disadvantages and weaknesses......Page 25
Lessons from collaboration......Page 26
References......Page 28
2. Governing through collaboration......Page 29
References......Page 37
3. The changing nature of government: network governance......Page 39
A fundamentally different approach......Page 40
Challenges posed for governments by working through networks......Page 41
Networking also involves human-resource challenges for traditional governments......Page 42
A final summary......Page 43
References......Page 44
4. Doing Things Collaboratively: Realizing the Advantage or Succumbing to Inertia?......Page 45
PERSPECTIVE 1: WE MUST HAVE COMMON AIMS BUT WE CANNOT AGREE ON THEM......Page 46
Managing Aims in Practice......Page 47
PERSPECTIVE 2: SHARING POWER IS IMPORTANT, BUT PEOPLE BEHAVE AS IF IT’S ALL IN THE PURSE STRINGS......Page 48
Managing Power in Practice......Page 49
PERSPECTIVE 3: TRUST IS NECESSARY FOR SUCCESSFUL COLLABORATION, BUT WE ARE SUSPICIOUS OF EACH OTHER......Page 50
PERSPECTIVE 4: WE ARE PARTNERSHIP-FATIGUED AND TIRED OF BEING PULLED IN ALL DIRECTIONS......Page 51
PERSPECTIVE 5: EVERYTHING KEEPS CHANGING......Page 53
PERSPECTIVE 6: LEADERSHIP IS NOT ALWAYS IN THE HANDS OF MEMBERS......Page 55
PERSPECTIVE 7: LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES CONTINUALLY MEET WITH DILEMMAS AND DIFFICULTIES......Page 56
REALIZING COLLABORATIVE ADVANTAGE......Page 57
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 58
1. Achieving outcomes......Page 61
3. Reaching emergent milestones......Page 62
5. Acknowledging personal pride in championing a partnership......Page 63
3. It’s rarely a happy ending for all the characters…......Page 64
Is successful collaboration just a myth?......Page 65
How to seek successful partnership......Page 66
The three pillars of social governance......Page 67
The third sector: social investment, capabilities and a new service model......Page 69
Conclusion: the whole is more than the sum of its parts......Page 71
References......Page 72
Part 2. The reality of collaboration: success, failure, challenges and questions......Page 75
7. What works and why: collaborating in a crisis......Page 77
Objectives in crisis management......Page 78
From pre-existing arrangements to what works and why......Page 79
Conclusions: lessons across government......Page 81
Human and social capital......Page 83
Equity......Page 84
A new federalism......Page 86
References......Page 89
The West Arnhem Shire: a story of governance success......Page 91
Collaborating for good governance......Page 92
West Arnhem: from collaboration to coercion......Page 93
Mutitjulu: a litany of broken promises......Page 94
The new intervention policy......Page 98
The Indigenous Community Governance Project......Page 99
What is working......Page 100
What isn’t working......Page 101
From coercion to collaboration?......Page 104
References......Page 106
The PPP pedigree......Page 109
Evaluating PPP performance......Page 111
Evidence of value for money......Page 112
Governance evidence......Page 117
Complexity......Page 118
Accountability and governance arrangements......Page 119
Parliamentary inquiry findings......Page 120
Conclusions......Page 121
References......Page 122
11. Perspectives of community organisations: The Smith Family experience......Page 129
Stronger families and communities strategy (government–community collaboration)......Page 130
The Prime Minister’s Community Business Partnership (corporate–community collaboration)......Page 132
Network governance (government–corporate–community collaboration)......Page 133
Key lessons......Page 135
References......Page 136
Family violence......Page 137
Streamlining Indigenous funding agreements......Page 139
Improving information networks through ‘iPlace’......Page 141
Conclusion......Page 142
The Brisbane local government context......Page 143
Regulation Reduction Incentive Fund (RRIF)......Page 144
Brisbane Water Enviro Alliance......Page 145
Homeless Connect......Page 146
Kurilpa Point......Page 147
Responding to the drought......Page 149
Future directions and possibilities for collaboration with local government......Page 150
Conclusion......Page 151
Collaborating: perspectives of a community ‘collaborator’......Page 153
Trust......Page 154
Power......Page 155
Australasian Consumer Fraud Taskforce: an example of (i) government-to-government collaboration, (ii) government-to-business collaboration and (iii) government-to-community collaboration......Page 157
Purposes and activities of the task force......Page 159
Conclusion......Page 160
Part 3. Collaboration abroad: comparative perspectives......Page 163
Overview and challenge......Page 165
Why are governments fostering collaboration with the non-profit sector?......Page 166
Canada’s Voluntary Sector Initiative: a few bricks in place......Page 168
Recent developments in British Columbia: from Ministry of Community Development, Cooperatives and Volunteers to Government Non Profit Initiative......Page 174
Conclusion: some reflections to consider......Page 178
References......Page 181
Introduction: a burgeoning interest in collaboration......Page 187
Why collaboration with the third sector?......Page 188
How have we tried to collaborate in the United Kingdom?......Page 189
What have been the outcomes of our approaches?......Page 191
Conclusion......Page 192
Part 4. Collaboration: rhetoric and reality......Page 195
The obsession with collaboration......Page 197
What’s in a word?......Page 199
Reflections on ‘collaboration’ in practice: what can we learn?......Page 203
Concluding remarks......Page 207
References......Page 208
18. Postscript......Page 213