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Title: The Victorian Parliament: An institution in decline?
Contributor(s): Harkness, Alistair  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 1999
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/29805
Abstract: Although the Victorian parliament is in urgent need of reform, there is little likelihood of change in the near future. That this should be so is a matter of irony, given that the Kennett government has made massive structural and policy reforms in almost every portfolio since being elected in 1992. While the government has revolutionised the public service, privatised numerous public bodies, and dramatically altered policy areas such as health, education, transport and industrial relations, no such changes have been made to the workings of that instutition perhaps in greatest need of reform - the Legislative Council, Victoria's upper house. After a period of quite substantial constitutional reform by the Cain Labor government, parliamentary reform by the Kennett government has been virtually non-existent.
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: The Kennett revolution: Victorian politics in the 1990s, p. 66-75
Publisher: University of New South Wales Press
Place of Publication: Sydney, Australia
ISBN: 0868405450
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 160601 Australian Government and Politics
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 940202 Electoral Systems
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
WorldCat record: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42842873
Editor: Editor(s): Brian Costar and Nicholas Economou
Appears in Collections:Book Chapter
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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