A signal failure: Sports grants, public servants, and traffic lights

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dc.contributor.authorDi Francesco, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-13T05:53:26Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.date.updated2021-08-01T08:22:32Z
dc.description.abstractThe Auditor General's performance audit into the failings of the Community Sport Infrastructure Grant Program has led to a ministerial resignation and a parliamentary inquiry. The media melee prompted by the 'sports rorts' affair has focussed on political corruption of process, with a concentration on the role of ministerial advisers. This is only part of the story. This article argues that on this occasion the Australian Public Service (APS) did not acquit itself well, and that the affair was triggered by an administrative failure to advise on threshold legal and procedural issues: what is termed the 'traffic light' role of a professional public service. The article considers how such policy advice failings may have occurred, and whether APS performance in this instance is an indicator of declining institutional capacity.en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn0313-6647en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/268837
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing Ltden_AU
dc.rights© 2020 The authorsen_AU
dc.sourceAustralian Journal of Public Administrationen_AU
dc.subjectadministrative failureen_AU
dc.subjectAuditor Generalen_AU
dc.subjectAustralian Public Serviceen_AU
dc.subjectCommunity Sport Infrastructure Grant Programen_AU
dc.subjectdeclining insti-tutional capacityen_AU
dc.subjectministerial advisersen_AU
dc.subjectpolicy adviceen_AU
dc.subject‘sports rorts’en_AU
dc.titleA signal failure: Sports grants, public servants, and traffic lightsen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage591en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage584en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationDi Francesco, Michael, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailu3813540@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidDi Francesco, Michael, u3813540en_AU
local.description.embargo2099-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor440708 - Public administrationen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationa383154xPUB13470en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume79en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1111/1467-8500.12434en_AU
local.identifier.uidSubmittedBya383154en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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