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AUSTRALIAN HIGH COMMISSION
OTTAWA
MEDIA RELEASE
PUBLIC POLICY UNIT ESTABLISHED AT THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
18 May 2010
A new academic institute to develop, debate and dissect public policy has been established at the Australian National University in Canberra. Announcing the first stage of the project, Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd said the Australian National Institute for Public Policy would be modelled on the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in the United States. “Our development as a prosperous, dynamic and outward looking nation depends on strong, well informed, innovative and robust public policy debate,” Mr Rudd said.
He said the Government would invest up to $111.7 million in the ANIPP, including $14 million to bolster public policy expertise at ANU, through enhancing capacity in the Crawford School of Economics and Government and establishing the HC Coombs Policy Forum, which he said would inform future policy development.
It would also include $7 million in Sir Roland Wilson Foundation scholarships for Public Servants to study at ANU; the recently announced $17.3 million National Security College; and a new $19.8 million building to house the new National Security College and the enhanced presence of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) in the precinct, expected to open in 2012.
Mr Rudd said Cabinet would do a better job in setting the Government’s strategic goals if it had the best possible advice from the Public Service. He said the new institute would reinvigorate the public sector’s links to the outside world with academics, research institutions and with private sector experts. “Every Department and Agency will be required to provide, every year, for each public servant, a significant opportunity to take part in some learning and development activity, including training and education, on-the-job training, and coaching and mentoring.
The Institute is a partnership between the Public Service, ANZSOG and the ANU.