IPAA NT 2009 Hawkes Oration 10min.wmv

Dr Simon Longstaff, Executive Director, St James Ethics Centre, Sydney - The Uses and Abuses of the Public Service

Wednesday 11 November 2009, 7.00 pm, Darwin Convention Centre

The Hawkes Oration is a speech given each year relating to a major issue for public administration in the Northern Territory. The speech is named after a long-serving President, David Hawkes, who significantly contributed to the work of IPAA NT over many years, and played a major role in the development of public administration in the Territory. David Hawkes was Commissioner for Public Employment for thirteen years and was, at his retirement, the longest serving Commissioner in Australia. He was the driving force behind the creation of the Public Sector Employment and Management Act (1991), regarded at the time as the most advanced of the new devolved public management models in Australia. In his early career as a public sector union official, he played a major role in the development of redeployment and voluntary redundancy arrangements in the Australian Public Service. These arrangements were used in the Territory over many years as a means of managing structural change. David was a strong supporter of personal and professional development programmes including the Territory's Executive Development Programme (EDP) and national Public Sector Management Program.

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