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1. News from the Chair
RegNet was not untouched by the tragic events of September 11. Professor Leslie Whittington of the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University, along with her husband and their two children, were on board the aircraft that crashed into the Pentagon in Washington. The family had been en route to Canberra, where Professor Whittington was to have taken up a visiting fellowship in RegNet's Centre for Tax System Integrity. The entire RegNet community extends its heartfelt sympathy to Leslie's surviving family and friends.
John Braithwaite, currently visiting at New York University, was only a mile away from the World Trade Center at the time of the disaster, but was not in any danger. Valerie Braithwaite and their children, who were en route to New York at the time, joined him after having been grounded in San Francisco. We wish them a pleasant reunion, a fulfilling and productive stay in New York, and a safe return to Australia.
Back at University House in Canberra, the growth of RegNet continues apace, as three new research centers came into being. Clifford Shearing and Peter Grabosky have begun to develop Security21, the National Centre for Security and Justice; the National Research Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Regulation is well on its way under the direction of Richard Johnstone; and the establishment of a Centre for Competition and Consumer Policy has also begun. The Director of this Centre is Imelda Maher. More detailed descriptions of these new centres and particulars relating to positions available may be found below.
RegNet's existing centres are also enjoying continued support and success. The Centre for Democratic Institutions has received continued funding support from AusAID and praise from the Minister of Foreign Affairs for its work and the Centre for Restorative Justice is developing new international linkages through a joint restorative justice project with Japan.
RegNet also welcomes its affiliation with The Foundation for Effective Markets and Governance (FEMG). The Foundation is located in the RegNet offices in University House. RegNet members look forward to working with the members of FEMG and are excited about the possibilities that will evolve from this affiliation.
Peter Gabosky
Acting Chair
Peter Gabosky
Acting Chair
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2. Positions Available at RegNet
NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY RESEARCH
Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Fellow/Fellow
Ref:SS567
In collaboration and with funding from the National Occupational Health and Safety Commission, the Australian National University is establishing a National Research Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Regulation. The Centre is interdisciplinary and oriented to evidence-based policy research. Research topics for the Centre will include international developments in occupational health and safety (OHS) regulation, enforcement of OHS standards, OHS regulation in a changing labour market, regulating safety management systems, and worker participation in OHS regulation. The Director of the Centre is Professor Richard Johnstone. The Centre is part of the Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet) (http://regnet.anu.edu.au/). The work on OHS regulation will connect to a wider program of research on regulation that has already attracted an internationally distinguished group of scholars.
The Centre is looking to appoint a researcher to be engaged in the Centre's research activities. Depending on qualifications and research experience, the successful applicant will be appointed at the level of Postdoctoral Fellow (Level A), Research Fellow (Level B) or Fellow (Level C). Recent PhDs with good methodological skills are particularly welcome to apply.
Appointment will be for up to three years.
Enquiries: Professor Richard Johnstone. Email: richard.johnstone@anu.edu.au
SECURITY 21: NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SECURITY AND JUSTICE
Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Fellow/Fellow
Ref:SS568
The Australian National University is establishing a National Centre for Public Security and Justice, called Security 21.
Fundamental changes are taking place, that are moving human existence beyond the established certainties of existing thinking about security and justice and how they are to be provided. Concepts such as "crime" and "crime control" are being reshaped and refigured in response to emerging global and local challenges to security and justice. Security 21 is a program of research and training designed to create and express new global and local strategies required to respond to the challenges of the 21st Century. Its focus will include not only the major institutions of criminal justice, but also the interrelationship of public institutions with those of civil society, in particular, harnessing of private and non-profit institutions in furtherance of public safety, human rights, and conflict resolution.
Security 21 will combine learning through both on-site and distance teaching with research and grassroots community development in ways that will position Australia as a local, regional and global hub within the field of security, justice and human rights.
Security 21 will be comprised initially of two complementary programs. Each will contribute to, and strengthen the other.
A program on Innovations in Governance will look to the future, and will seek to develop new institutional solutions in furtherance of security and justice. It will have a strong focus not only on Australia and the Asia-Pacific region, but also across the Southern Hemisphere. This will provide the basis for exchanges and developments by promoting a network of research and intervention focused activities with Australia, the region and the Southern Hemisphere as their principal terrain. In addition to research and interventions, two key features of this component will be workshops and exchanges for both scholars and implementers.
A program on Strategic Support will assist various institutional clients in meeting their strategic planning needs. Deliverables will include contributions to the strategic planning process, workshops on general issues such as the strategic environment of law enforcement, and on more specific issues such as peacekeeping, transnational crime, and community policing.
Security 21 seeks to appoint two researchers. Depending on qualifications and research experience, the successful applicants will be appointed at the level of Postdoctoral Fellow (Level A), Research Fellow (Level B) or Fellow (Level C).
Appointments will be for up to three years.
Enquiries: Professor Peter Grabosky. Email: Peter.Grabosky@anu.edu.au
CENTRE FOR COMPETITION AND CONSUMER POLICY
CENTRE FOR COMPETITION AND CONSUMER POLICY
Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Fellow/Fellow
Ref:SS569
In collaboration with, and with funding from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the Australian National University is establishing a Centre for Competition and Consumer Policy. The Centre is interdisciplinary and orientated to evidence-based policy research. Research topics for the Centre will include evaluating the effectiveness of ACCC compliance and enforcement activity; competition and consumer laws in global markets; and evaluating the public benefit test. The Centre is part of the Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet) (http://regnet.anu.edu.au). The work on competition and consumer policy will connect to a wider program of research on regulation that has already attracted an internationally distinguished group of scholars.
The Centre is seeking to appoint an economist or other social scientist with quantitative skills who would work on empirical projects to evaluate the impact of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. Depending on qualifications and research experience, the successful applicant will be appointed at the level of Postdoctoral Fellow (Level A), Research Fellow (Level B) or Fellow (Level C). Recent PhDs with good methodological skills are particularly welcome to apply.
Appointment will be for up to three years.
Enquiries: Ms. Imelda Maher. Email: imelda.maher@anu.edu.au
CENTRE FOR TAX SYSTEM INTEGRITY
Post-Doctoral Fellow/Research Fellow/Fellow/Senior Fellow/Professor
Ref:SS570
The Centre for Tax System Integrity (CTSI) is a specialised research unit that has been set up to extend our understanding of how and why cooperation and contestation within the tax system occurs. The work of CTSI examines the needs, values, attitudes and behaviours of all key players in the tax system, from tax officers themselves through taxpayers and tax agents, to those who are beneficiaries of the tax system. The Centre aims to improve the integrity of the tax system, to improve the ATO's compliance management strategies and processes, and to contribute internationally to scholarship in the field of regulation. The Centre represents a three-to-six year research partnership between the Australian National University and the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). The CTSI brings together academics from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds including criminology, law, psychology, economics, and sociology as well as non-academic experts to engage in research on taxation compliance.
Appointments will be for up to three years.
Enquiries: Professor Ian McAllister. Email: Ian.McAllister@anu.edu.au.
See also CTSI's Website at http://ctsi.anu.edu.au/
General Information
The Research School of Social Sciences encourages applications from women for all these appointments.
Salary:
Postdoctoral Fellow (Level A) $40,495-$48,867 per annum*
Research Fellow (Level B) $51,330-$60,562 per annum
Fellow (Level C) $62,407-$71,641 per annum
Senior Fellow (Level D) $74,716-$82,102 per annum
Professor (Level E1) $95,645 per annum
Professor (Level E2) $101,431 per annum
*(A successful applicant holding a PhD will be appointed at $45,666).
Closing date: 16 November 2001
Contact: Intending applicants must obtain a copy of the further particulars, available from the RegNet Website: A HREF="http://regnet.anu.edu.au/employment">http://regnet.anu.edu.au/employment or from the School Secretary, Research School of Social Sciences: fax: (02) 6125 0502; email: schoolsec.rsss@anu.edu.au tel: (02) 6125 2257.
Applications must be sent to: The School Secretary, Research School of Social Sciences Building 9, The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200, Australia
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New Arrivals at RegNet
Imelda Maher, one of the leading scholars of European competition policy, arrived in September to take up her RegNet appointment and will be heading up the new RegNet Centre for Competition and Consumer Policy.
Michael Kempa also arrived during September. Michael has transferred to the ANU from Toronto to be a part of the RegNet/Security 21 environment, which, given the interests of the faculty, he considers will be a major benefit to his doctoral research addressing the policing and broader governance reforms that are underway in Northern Ireland. With the support of the department, Michael was successful in the recent University scholarships competition being awarded a PhD Scholarship from the Endowment for Excellence and a International Student Tuition Scholarship.
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Continued Support for Centre for Democratic Institutions (CDI)
The Centre for Democratic Institutions was established at the ANU under a contract with AusAID in June 1998 for a three year period. In the course of the third year, an external review of CDI was conducted by Mr Bob Dunn, a former Director-General of AusAID. The review report was submitted to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and in his letter to CDI, Mr Alexander Downer noted that "the Report was tremendously positive about the work of the CDI and its Director finding that the CDI has achieved recognition and profile beyond expectation."
AusAID has extended the original contract and is now in the process of negotiating a new three year contract with the ANU for the continuation of CDI's work. The Director of CDI, Roland Rich, has had his contract extended by a further three years by the ANU. CDI is currently engaged in completing its strategic plan for the next triennium. Its work will continue to focus on improving the quality of democratic governance in the Asia-Pacific region with particular emphasis on the work of parliaments and judiciaries. There will also be a focus on strengthening civil society leadership and improving the quality of journalism in the region. Two themes that flow through the program continue to be human rights and anti-corruption.
The latest information on CDI programs can be found on its website at http://www.cdi.anu.edu.au/.
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Joint restorative justice project underway between Japan and Australia.
The Centre for Restorative Justice is currently working in partnership with several universities, led by Toyo University in Tokyo, on a comparative study of restorative justice in Australia and Japan. There are two main aims of this study. The first aim of the research will be undertaken in Japan only. Towards the end of 2001 the Japanese research team will be surveying the views of victims of serious crimes, offenders who have committed serious crimes and various professional groups involved in the criminal justice system towards the possible introduction of restorative justice into the criminal justice system. Representatives of each of these groups will be shown videos of restorative processes used in criminal justice systems outside of Japan, such as Family Group Conferencing from New Zealand, Diversionary Conferencing as used in Canberra, and mediation as used in the United Kingdom. Questionnaires will then be used to sample the views of Japanese victims, offenders and practitioners towards these processes.
The second aspect of this research will involve sampling the views of the Japanese and Australian public about what the aims of criminal justice policy should be, their support for the principles underpinning restorative processes, and how successful they consider the current criminal justice systems of Japan and Australia to be. This public surveying will begin toward the end of this year in both countries. Peter Grabosky and Guy Masters have represented the ANU at research meetings held in Japan. For more information on this project contact Guy Masters on 6125 3799.
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The Foundation for Effective Markets and Governance (FEMG)
The smoking volcano, Mt Mayon, did not seem to be a significant distraction. The fresh faces of the Legaspi high school students in their crisp white shirts showed a real eagerness to understand:
- concepts like "abuse of monopoly power" and "asymmetry of information between trader and consumer"
- how better consumer protection and competition regulation could work to improve economic efficiency and distribute its benefits to the poor of the Philippines
- how school consumer clubs in this provincial town on the rim of the Pacific could influence what went on at the WTO in far away Geneva.
These students were participating in forum which was part of a project funded by the Australian Aid Program. The aim of the project was to strengthen the capacity of the consumer movement in the Philippines to press for consumer and competition policy legislative and administrative reform. It was undertaken by members of the Foundation for Effective Markets and Governance as a team operating under the auspices of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
The Foundation is a non-profit organisation the members of which include people who have worked for the ACCC, other government agencies, academia, and the consumer movement.
One of its main purposes is to make available, especially to developing countries, public policy, legal and administrative expertise to assist in the development and maintenance of effective, or fair and efficient, markets and governance. This expertise relates to regulation for consumer protection and competition, to government ombudsman and similar institutions of good governance and to developing the capacity of civil society (consumers, business and professionals) to contribute to good governance, especially the development and administration of sound regulation.
In developing countries the Foundation will mainly operate by collaborating with relevant government agencies and civil society groups to undertake projects with financial assistance from national and international development agencies.
The Foundation sees its affiliation with RegNet as very important and mutually beneficial. It means that, on the one hand it can draw on the expertise and research of RegNet members and involve them in its projects and on the other practical experience of Foundation members can inform RegNet research and other activities.
Robin Brown
Secretary-General
FEMG
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Seminars and Conferences
Seminars
How the Mix of Drug Control Strategies Should Vary Over a Drug Epidemic
Jonathan P. Caulkins Carnegie Mellon University, USA
3.00 pm - 4.30 pm, Thursday 1st November, 2001
Australian Institute of Criminology
74 Leichhardt Street, Griffith, ACT
Drug problems vary dramatically over time, often following an 'epidemic' cycle. It seems plausible, therefore, that the relative effectiveness of various drug control policies might likewise vary over time. This concept is not entirely alien, e.g. policy positions changed with the advent of HIV. Yet one rarely hears someone say, "I favor increasing enforcement because we're in the early, contagious spread stage of the epidemic" or "I favor increased treatment now, but only because the market has matured". The goal of this talk is to challenge advocates of static policy ("I favor X" - without qualification as to the nature of the drug or the state of the epidemic). Arguments are presented as to why policy should be dynamic, and drawing on both formal mathematical models and rough and ready policy analysis, conjectures are advanced concerning how the mix of drug control interventions ought to vary over the course of a drug epidemic.
Jonathan P. Caulkins is Professor of Operations Research and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz School of Public Policy. Dr. Caulkins specializes in mathematical modeling and systems analysis of social policy problems. He is a past co-director of RAND's Drug Policy Research Center (1994-1996) and founding Director of RAND's Pittsburgh office (1999-2001). He has done seminal work on systems analysis of issues pertaining to drugs, crime, and violence. Dr. Caulkins also publishes on airline operations, sulfur dioxide pollution trading markets, internet-based advertising, flexible manufacturing systems, and personnel performance evaluation, among other topics.
Dr. Caulkins received a B.S. and M.S. in Systems Science from Washington University, an S.M. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Ph.D. in Operations Research both from M.I.T.
RSVP: Wednesday 31st October 2001, Julie Dixon, phone 6260 9229, fax 6260 9203
or e-mail Julie.Dixon@aic.gov.au
Conferences
The Annual Public Law Weekend, Constitutional Law Conference
2-3 November 2001. Humanities Research Centre, ANU, Canberra
The Public Law Weekend is an annual conference organised by the Centre for International and Public Law, Faculty of Law, ANU, dealing in alternate years with administrative or constitutional law. This is the sixth Public Law Weekend and the third dealing with constitutional law.
The Friday theme is the intersection of constitutional law with other branches of law (administrative law, common law and international law). The Saturday sessions focus on recent developments in four specific areas of Australian public law including the judicial system, contemporary federalism, elections and parliamentarians, and state constitutional law.
Speakers include Tony Cavanough SC, Michael Sexton SC, Dr Kristen Walker, Jeremy Kirk, Ian Govey, Associate Professor Gerard Carney and Janine Pritchard.
The Friday night dinner at Old Parliament House commemorates the 50th Anniversary of the Communist Party Case. The speaker is Mr TEF Hughes AO QC.
The conference brochure is at website http://law.anu.edu.au/centres/CIPL (Conferences and lectures 2001) For further information on the Conference contact Cathy Hutton on (02) 6125 0454 or email cipl.law@anu.edu.au
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Centre for Tax System Integrity (CTSI) 2nd International Conference: "Taxpayers: Individualists or concerned citizens?"
10 -11 December 2001, Coombs Lecture Theatre, Fellows Road, ANU, Canberra
The Conference brings together academics and officers of revenue authorities from around the world to discuss the feasibility of developing participative tax paying cultures within the global community. Further information at http://ctsi.anu.edu.au/conference2001program.html
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Annual Conference & AGM - Public Law, Economics and Management
1 November 2001, Australian Law & Economics Association (AustLEA), ANU, Canberra
The Conference aims to review the performance of the public sector and the quality of public law and public sector management affecting decisions in cabinet rooms, court rooms and board rooms, on significant policy matters. Further information and registration forms can be found at http://law.anu.edu.au/cle/austlea
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Congratulations
Professor John Braithwaite was one of 15 to be awarded the prestigious Federation Fellowships for his project entitled "Restorative Justice and Responsive Regulation".
Professor Neil Gunningham was award a 2002 ARC Linkage Project grant for his project entitled "Regulatory design for water quality management in urban catchments", with industry partners Department of Environmental Protection Western Australia, Water Corporation and Water and Rivers Commission.
The following 2002 ARC Discovery Grants involved RegNet members:
- "The Nature of Regulatory Compliance: An Analysis of the Responses of Business Organisations to Constitutive Regulation of Working Relationships" - Professor Richard Johnstone (Griffith).
- "International challenges to the Australian legal system: trade and human rights" - Professor Hilary Charlesworth (ANU), Professor GJ Williams.
- "Democratic Audit of Australia" - A/Professor Marian Sawer (ANU), Professor Barry Hindess (ANU), Dr John Uhr (ANU), Professor Ian Marsh (ANU), Professor John Dryzek (ANU), Professor Ian McAllister (ANU).
Peter Grabosky has been appointed, by Brendan Smyth MLA, Minister for Urban Services of the Australian Capital Territory, to the ACT Crime Prevention Committee.
Declan Roche has been appointed at a Lecturer in Law at LSE.
Dr Yuka Sakurai, postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for Tax System Integrity was recently awarded her PhD in Commerce at the ANU for her thesis entitled 'Problems and prospects in cross-cultural interactions in Japanese multinational corporations in Australia". Yuka's work in the Centre has been on tax compliance behaviour of multinational corporations.
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Publications
Eliza Ahmed, Nathan Harris, John Braithwaite, Valerie Braithwaite. Shame Management Through Reintergration. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Carlos Carcach, Robert Goldney, Peter Grabosky, and Heather Strang (2001) "Temporal Clustering of Child Homicide: Contagion or Illusion?" Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 34,2, 182-192.
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RegNet Centres at the ANU
Australian Centre for Environmental
Law (ACEL)
Centre for Commercial Law (CCL)
Centre for Democratic Institutions (CDI)
Centre for International and Public
Law (CIPL)
Centre for Restorative Justice (CRJ)
Centre for Tax System Integrity (CTSI)
Centre for Competition and Consumer Policy (CCP)
National Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Research (OHSR)
Security 21: National Centre for Security and Justice
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11. RegNet Office
Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet),
Research School of
Social Sciences,
1st Floor Garden Wing,
University House,
Australian National University,
Canberra
ACT 0200,
Australia.
Email regnet@anu.edu.au
Web http://regnet.anu.edu.au
Phone: +61 (0)2 6243 8500.
Fax +61 (0)2 6423 8507.
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