Intro
Preface
Foreword
Contributors
Portrait of a life enthralled in politics and academe
Section 1: Budgeting and financial management
Introduction to Section 1: Public finance, budgeting and financial management
1.Reflections on John Wanna's contributions to theory and practice
2. Australian budgeting and beyond: Exploring John Wanna's scholarly surplus
3. Performance management for success: Public sector organisations in Australia and the Philippines
4. A system in adjustment: Australia's evolving public budget management system
5. Contradictions in implementing performance management
Section 2: Politics
Introduction to Section 2: Queensland and Australian politics
6. Cabinet government: The least bad system of government?
7. 'A long revolution': The historical coverage of Queensland politics and government
8. Policymaking, party executives and parliamentary policy actors
9. Models of government-business relations: Industry policy preferences versus pragmatism
Section 3: Public policy and administration
Introduction to Section 3: Public policy and public administration
10. Beyond new public governance
11. Chinese public administration developments and prospects: An Australian (and Hong Kong) perspective
12. Coming to terms with the state
Section 4: Working with practitioners
Introduction to Section 4: Working with practitioners
13. Engaging with government: A confessional tale
14. Neoliberalism? That's not how practitioners view public sector reform
15. Of 'trifles' and 'manhole covers': The practitioner-academic interface
Appendix 1: John Wanna's main publications
Appendix 2: Higher degree students supervised by John Wanna 1983-2020.