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A selection of Gary's publications and speeches from over the years (including slide presentations and op-eds) can be found here. There are also links to some of the inquiry and review reports for which he had a leading role. Future publications will also be placed here.

 

the governance of public policy: lectures in honour of eminent australians

Lapses in policy-making standards over the past decade have led to a succession of policy failures and reversals. They have also contributed to a decline in public trust in government. The essays in this volume, all  delivered as ‘named’ lectures by Gary Banks after he took up the role of Dean of ANZSOG, seek to understand the reasons and what is required to enhance Australia’s policy performance in the future.

 
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Advancing the reform agenda: selected speeches

This volume assembles a number of speeches/essays by Gary Banks from his final years as Chairman of the Productivity Commission. They draw on the Commission’s research and inquiries into  contemporary economic and social issues and challenges, with an emphasis on reforms and institutions needed to advance the living standards of Australians.

 

 

 

Safeguarding the Productivity Commission’s Independence

Australia’s Productivity Malaise: Reflections on the ‘Debate’

Reviving Productivity: from why to how

Bill Carmichael: champion of ‘transparency’

Australia’s new productivity imperative requires reforms that aren’t on the radar

 ‘Good Regulatory Practice’: another casualty of COVID?

From Recovery to Prosperity: Australia’s productivity challenge revisited

Productivity reform and COVID recovery

Bureaucracy in Crisis

Best Practice in Regulatory Reviews

Not ‘wasting the Crisis’

The politics of productivity: successes and failures ‘Down Under’

Whatever happened to ‘Evidence Based Policy Making’?

The productivity challenge and ‘the PCs’

The defenestration of public policy

Economics, Politics and Infrastructure

Public institutions and the productivity imperative

Could academic research be more policy influential?

Institutions to promote pro-productivity policies: logic and lessons

The challenge of better regulation: perspectives from the OECD (& Australia)

Reform summit: summit needs to agree reform must occur (op-ed)

ANZSOG conference takeaways

Success factors in structural reform: the Australian case

Public policies and the universities

The reform ended when the politics got ugly

Challenges in progressing pro-employment reforms

Making public inquiries, public policy and the public interest

The governance of public policy: lectures in honour of eminent Australians

Restoring trust in public policy: what role for the public service?

‘Managing’ the reform process:  what have we learnt?

Foreword, Trading nation Australia's interest in the world markets

Return of the rent-seeking society?

The Australian public service needs to pick up its game (op-ed)

Why the rent-seeking economy is creeping back again (op-ed)

Innovation in the public sector: challenges, opportunities and risks

Towards better regulatory governance: the OECD Council’s recommendations of 2012

Good processes underpin strong, innovative policy (op-ed)
















 
 

Commissioned Reports