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Conference Presentations

  1. Crase, L., Patullock, E., Lamb, P. and Dollery, B. E. “Measuring the Demand for Mobile Telephony in Rural Australia: Is Mobile Telephony for Remote Australian Communities a Natural Monopoly?”, Paper delivered by Lin Crase, Proceedings of the Communications Research Forum 2000, Canberra, 7 October, 2000.

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

  1. Worthington, A. C. and Dollery, B. E. “Can Australian Local Government Play a Meaningful Role in the Development of Social Capital in Disadvantaged Rural Communities?”, Australian Journal of Social Issues, 35(4), 349-362, 2000.
  2. Dollery, B. E. and Wallis, J. L. “A Note on the Timing of Microeconomic Reform in Australia”, Economic Analysis and Policy, 30(1), 63-72, 2000.
  3. Worthington, A. C. and Dollery, B. E. “The Debate on Australian Federalism: Local Government Financial Interrelationships with State and Commonwealth Governments”, Australian Journal of Public Administration, 59(4), 25-35, 2000.
  4. Burton, T. A., Dollery, B. E. and Wallis, J. L. “Rhetorical Patterns at the 1999 New South Wales Drug Summit”, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 12(2), 207-215, 2000.
  5. Dollery, B. E., Stewart, M. and Worthington, A. C.  “Australian Fiscal Federalism: An Empirical Note on Long-Term Trends in State and Local Government Finance, 1969/70 to 1994/95”, Economic Papers, 19(3), 16-17, 2000.
  6. Dollery, B. E., Witherby, A. and Marshall, N. A. “Section 94 Developer Contributions and Marginal Cost Pricing”, Urban Policy and Research, 18(3), 311-328, 2000.
  7. Soul, S. and Dollery, B. E. “The Effect of Municipal Population Size on Political Effectiveness: An Empirical Note on Four Local Government Jurisdictions in New South Wales”, Regional Policy and Practice, 9(2), 64-66, 2000.
  8. McNeill, J. and Dollery, B. E. “Financing Urban Infrastructure: An Evaluation of Water and Sewerage Developer Charges in New South Wales”, Transactions of Multi-Disciplinary Engineering, GE24, 1-14, 2000.
  9. Dollery, B. E. and Singh, S. “Explaining the Real Size of Government in Australia: An Application of the Ferris and West Model”, Economic Analysis and Policy, 30(2), 157-174, 2000.
  10. Crase, L., Dollery, B. E. and Worthington, A. C. “Economic Growth, Economic Policy Formulation and Structural Reform of the South African Economy”, Politics, Administration and Change, 34, 1-22, 2000.
  11. Dollery, B. E. and Wallis, J. L. “A Note on the Coherence of the New Public Management as a Managerial Philosophy”, International Review of Public Administration, 5(1), 81-91, 2000.
  12. Dollery, B. E. and Soul, S. “An Analysis of the Criteria Used by Australian Local Government Amalgamation Inquiries Between 1960 and 1992”, Regional Policy and Practice, 9(2), 41-52, 2000.
  13. Dollery, B. E. and Soul, S.  “A Note on Australian Local Government and Regional Economic and Social Inequalities”, Australian Journal of Social Issues, 35(2), 159-168, 2000.
  14. Worthington, A. C. and Dollery, B. E. “Measuring Efficiency in Local Government”, Public Productivity and Management Review, 23(4), 469-485, 2000.
  15. Crase, L. and Dollery, B. E. “Breakeven Output and Efficient Scale of Livestock Selling Complexes in Victoria”, Accounting, Accountability and Performance, 6(1) 1-18, 2000.
  16. McNeill, J. and Dollery, B. E. “Funding Urban Infrastructure Using Developer Charges: The Case of Section 94 Contributions and Road Financing in New South Wales”, Public Works Management and Policy, 4(4), 297-304, 2000.
  17. Worthington, A. C. and Dollery, B. E. “Productive Efficiency and the Australian Local Government Grants Process: An Empirical Analysis of New South Wales Local Government”, Australian Journal of Regional Studies, 6(2), 95-121, 2000.
  18. Crase, L., O’Reilly, L. and Dollery, B. E. “Water Markets as a Vehicle for Water Reform: The Case of New South Wales”, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 44(2), 299-321, 2000.
  19. Worthington, A. C. and Dollery, B. E. “An Empirical Survey of Frontier Efficiency Measurement Techniques in Local Government”, Local Government Studies, 26(2), 23-52, 2000.

Working Papers

  1. Wallis, J. L. and Dollery, B. E. “Evaluating the New Zealand Model of Strategic Reform: A Case Study of Local Government Policy Evolution Since 1987”, University of Otago, Economics Discussion Papers, 0004, 2000.
  2. Worthington, A. C. and Dollery, B. E. “Efficiency Measurement in the Local Public Sector: Econometric and Mathematical Programming Frontier Techniques”, Discussion Papers in Economics, Finance and International Competitiveness No. 78, Queensland University of Technology, 1-21, 2000.
  3. Worthington, A. and Dollery, B. E. “Effective Aspects of NSW Local Governments' Domestic Waste Management Service”, UNE Working Paper Series in Economics, Working Paper 2000-11, School of Economic Studies, University of New England, 2000 (ISSN 1442 2980).
  4. McNeill, J. and Dollery, B. E. “Financing Urban Infrastructure in New South Wales: An Evaluation of Water and Sewage Developer Charges Policy”, UNE Working Paper Series in Economics, Working Paper 2000-10, School of Economic Studies, University of New England, 2000 (ISSN 1442 2980).
  5. Soul, S. and Dollery, B. E. “An Analysis of the Criteria Used by Australian Local Government Amalgamation Inquiries Between 1960 and 1992”, UNE Working Paper Series in Economics, Working Paper 2000-9, School of Economic Studies, University of New England, 2000 (ISSN 1442 2980).
  6. Wallis, J. and Dollery, B. E. “The Appropriateness of the New Zealand Model of Public Management Reform to South Africa”, UNE Working Paper Series in Economics, Working Paper 2000-8, School of Economic Studies, University of New England, 2000 (ISSN 1442 2980).
  7. Wallis, J. and Dollery, B. E. “Local Government Reform in New Zealand”, UNE Working Paper Series in Economics, Working Paper 2000-7, School of Economic Studies, University of New England, 2000 (ISSN 1442 2980).
  8. Worthington, A. and Dollery, B. E. “Can Australian Local Government Play a Meaningful Role in the Development of Social Capital in Disadvantaged Communities?”, UNE Working Paper Series in Economics, Working Paper 2000-6, School of Economic Studies, University of New England, 2000 (ISSN 1442 2980).
  9. Dollery, B. E. and Soul, S. “A Note on Australian Local Government and Regional Economic and Social Inequalities”, UNE Working Paper Series in Economics, Working Paper 2000-5, School of Economic Studies, University of New England, 2000 (ISSN 1442 2980).
  10. Worthington, A. and Dollery, B. E. “An Analysis of Recent Trends in Australian Local Government”, UNE Working Paper Series in Economics, Working Paper 2000-4, School of Economic Studies, University of New England, 2000 (ISSN 1442 2980).
  11. Worthington, A. and Dollery, B. E. “An Empirical Analysis of Productivity Change in Local Government 1993/94 to 1995/96”, UNE Working Paper Series in Economics, Working Paper 2000-3, School of Economic Studies, University of New England, 2000 (ISSN 1442 2980).
  12. Worthington, A. and Dollery, B. E. “Diversity in Australian Local Government: The Case Against the Imposition of Uniform National Standards”, UNE Working Paper Series in Economics, Working Paper 2000-2, School of Economic Studies, University of New England, 2000 (ISSN 1442 2980).
  13. Worthington, A. and Dollery, B. E. “The Debate on Australian Federalism: Local Government Financial Interrelationships with State and Commonwealth Governments”, UNE Working Paper Series in Economics, Working Paper 2000-1, School of Economic Studies, University of New England, 2000 (ISSN 1442 2980).

Other Activities

Workshops, Seminars and Short Courses

Amalgamation Seminars. A seminar was scheduled for December 13th 2000 at Kempsey on the north coast of NSW and throughout the New England and North-West.

Research

1. The community outcomes project. Compared outcomes of local government reform processes. The study involved a selection of council in NSW and Victoria and was being undertaken in collaboration with RMIT.

2. E-commerce in regional and rural NSW. Dollery and McNeill secured Aust. Bus. Foundation research grant of $56,000 to investigate e-commerce in regional and rural NSW.