Assess the strengths and weaknesses of public consultation in policy making, illustrating your response with Australian examples.

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Critically assess.

References are to be peer reviewed articles/ books etc.
No newspaper articles, or feeds.

Can use the following references and others

TEXTBOOK: Althaus, Catherine, Bridgman, Peter and Davis, Glyn 2007 (or 2012), A Policy Cycle, The Australian Policy Handbook, 4th (or 5th) edition, Crows Nest, Allen & Unwin, pp. 32-42.
Colebatch, H.K. 2005, Policy analysis, policy practice and political science, Australian Journal of Public Administration, 64(3): 14-23.

TEXTBOOK: Althaus, Catherine, Bridgman, Peter and Davis, Glyn 2007 (or 2012), The Institutions of Public Policy, The Australian Policy Handbook, 4th (or 5th) edition, Crows Nest, Allen & Unwin, pp. 12-31.
TEXTBOOK: Althaus, Catherine, Bridgman, Peter and Davis, Glyn 2007 (or 2012), Decision, The Australian Policy Handbook, 4th (or 5th) edition, Crows Nest, Allen & Unwin, pp. 154-167.

Tiernan, Anne and Weller, Patrick 2010, Ministers and Departments in Learning to be a Minister: Heroic Expectations, Practical Realities, Melbourne University Press.

Tingle, Laura 2015, Political Amnesia: How We Forgot to Govern, Quarterly Essay 60: 1-86.

Wanna, John, Butcher, John and Freyens, Benoit 2010, \’Program implementation and management\’ in Policy in Action: The challenge for service delivery, Sydney, UNSW Press, pp. 220-251.

Hamburger, Peter 2007, \’The Australian Government Cabinet Implementation Unit\’ in John Wanna (ed.) Improving Implementation: Organisational change and project management, ANU E-Press, Canberra.
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