Mark Evans is the Director of the ANZSOG Institute for Governance and Dean of the Faculty of Business and Government at the University of Canberra, providing ANZSOG governments with strategic training and research support developing short courses in conflict transformation and an international masters of public administration program, as well as providing research on institution-building and governance. Prof Evans was also formerly the Head of the Department of Politics at the University of Canberra. Roger Wettenhall is Professor of Public Administration Emeritus anat the University of Canberra. He chairs the Management Committee of the Institute of Public Administration Australia/University of Canberra Public Administration Research Trust Fund and was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2010. Chris Aulich is a Professor of Public Administration at the ANZSOG Institute for Governance at the University of Canberra, and has specialised in the privatisation policies of Australian governments. He has published extensively in academic journals, professional magazines and books on issues relating to both local government and to privatisation.