Brokering Balance: A Public Interest Map for Queensland Government Bodies

Abstract

Last year, the Premier of Queensland announced a major public sector reform program with five new public sector reform initiatives. One of the five reform initiatives was this Review of Queensland Government Boards, Committees and Statutory Authorities. The Premier said the public sector reform initiatives would result in the most wide ranging changes to the Queensland public sector than any in the past decade. The reform objective was to ‘create a more modern, efficient, and effective public service’ with the review of government bodies to reduce ‘both number and cost’. The Premier said, ‘I want to cut unnecessary red tape and identify and free up people and funding for the delivery of core public services’.1 The purpose of this Review is to reduce bureaucracy and red tape, whilst improving efficiency and maintaining regulatory integrity.2