The Fitzgerald
Legacy: Reforming
Public Life in Australia and Beyond
Edited
by Colleen Lewis, Janet Ransley, Ross Homel
Monash University and Griffith University
"Public administration presents many
challenges. The American author Norman Mailer suggested that democracy
is ‘a state of grace that is attained only by those countries which
have a host of individuals not only ready to enjoy freedom but to undergo
the heavy labor of maintaining it’. This excellent book is a significant
contribution to the task". — G.E. (Tony) Fitzgerald
Twenty years ago, the Commission of Inquiry
into Possible Illegal Activities and Associated Police Misconduct, commonly
referred to as the Fitzgerald Inquiry after its chair Mr G.E. (Tony) Fitzgerald,
QC, tabled its findings in the Queensland Parliament after an exhaustive
and sensational two years of public investigation. It was the fifth inquiry
into police related matters in Queensland in 25 years, and originally expected
by the government of the day to last about six weeks. Its findings and
recommendations continue to have a significant effect on many aspects of
public life in Queensland and beyond. The Fitzgerald Inquiry blueprint
for reform has influenced police and public sector reform in other Australian
States and internationally. This edited collection recalls the events that
led up to the Fitzgerald Inquiry and examines the extraordinary influence
the ‘watershed’ inquiry has had on police and public sector
reform at the state, national and international levels. It assesses the
extent to which the inquiry’s vision for reform has been implemented,
and whether it is still a viable reform agenda for contemporary governance
problems.
About
the Editors
Colleen Lewis is an Associate Professor in the School
of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University. Her major research
interests include police accountability, complaints against police, police-government
relations and models of oversight bodies such as anti-corruption commissions,
integrity commissions, ombudsmen and crime commissions. She has contributed
widely to a number of highly regarded research publications in the area
of policing.
Janet Ransley lectures in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith
University. She is a member of the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice
and Governance, and an associate investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence
in Policing and Security. She worked previously in legal practice, and
was the inaugural Director of Research for the Parliamentary Committee
for Electoral and Administrative Review. Her PhD thesis dealt with the
investigative role of royal commissions. She has published in the areas
of police reform, inquiries and court processes, and is currently part
of research teams investigating policy responses for immigration detainees,
illicit drug regulation and counter-terrorism.
Ross Homel AO is Foundation Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, and Director of the Griffith
Institute for Social and Behavioural Research, a virtual network of over
100 academic staff in the social and behavioural sciences. He has held
senior research management positions within Griffith University since
1993 including as Director of the highly successful Australian Research
Council Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance between 2004
and 2007. He was responsible (with Jan Carter) for establishing a national
set of research priorities to advance the wellbeing of children and young
people and for setting up a new Australian Research Council research
network, while undertaking a half time role with the Australian Research
Alliance for Children and Youth in 2002 and 2003. Between 1994 and 1999
he was a part time Commissioner for the Queensland Criminal Justice Commission.
He is Vice-President of the Council for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
(CHASS), a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a member of the
Academy Executive, and has won numerous awards for his research on the
prevention of crime, violence and injuries. Professor Homel’s accomplishments
were recognised in January 2008 when he was appointed an Officer in the
General Division of the Order of Australia (AO) ‘for service to
education, particularly in the field of criminology, through research
into the causes of crime, early intervention and prevention methods’.
In May 2008 he was recognised with an award from the Premier of Queensland
as a ‘Queensland Great’, ‘for his contribution to Queensland’s
reputation for research excellence, the development of social policy
and justice reform and helping Queensland’s disadvantaged communities’.
In December 2008, he was shortlisted for 2009 Australian of the Year.
Table
of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Tony Fitzgerald
Chapter 1 The State We Were In
Colleen Lewis, Janet Ransley & Ross Homel
Chapter 2 Fitzgerald: A Model Investigative Inquiry?
Janet Ransley
Chapter 3 Exploring the Limits: Media as Watchdog in Queensland
Julianne Schultz
Chapter 4 Crime and Misconduct Commission: Moving Away from Fitzgerald
Colleen Lewis
Chapter 5 EARC: A Short-term Experiment in Permanent Reform?
Janet Ransley
Chapter 6 Depoliticising Policing: Reviewing and Registering Police Reforms
Colleen Lewis
Chapter 7 Changing the Approach: Structural Reform in the Queensland
Police Force
Jenny Fleming
Chapter 8 The Evolution of Human Resource Management in Policing
Jacqueline M. Drew and Tim Prenzler
Chapter 9 ‘Unusual Industrial Organisations’:
Police Unions, Fitzgerald and Reform
Richard Evans
Chapter 10 The Reformative Powers of Higher Education for Policing?
Kerry Wimshurst
Chapter 11 The Renewal of Parliament: A Fitzgerald Legacy?
Noel Preston
Chapter 12 Freedom of Information (FoI) in Queensland and its Fitzgerald
Origins
David Solomon
Chapter 13 Global Lessons from Fitzgerald: From State and National to
Global Integrity Systems
Charles Sampford
List of Contributors
Index
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