1. Why Make Local Government Sustainable? 2. Tools for Making Local Government Sustainable 3. Revenue and Expenditure for Making Local Government Sustainable 4. Assets and Liabilities 5. Performance Monitoring and Budgeting 6. Efficiency – Concepts and Measurement 7. Will Public Policy Make Local Government Sustainable? 8. Will Consultants Make Local Government Sustainable? 9. Making Local Government Sustainable with Dialogue, Scaffolding and Patience
Biography
Joseph Drew is recently retired and now adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of New England. His principal research interests are government financial sustainability, performance monitoring, natural law philosophy, and theories of public administration. He has consulted for numerous local governments, state governments, and national governments in Australia and abroad. In addition, Professor Drew is the author of over one hundred scholarly works and six books including: ‘Reforming Local Government’ (2020), ‘Saving Local Government’ (2022), ‘Natural Law & Government’ (2022), ‘Selling Public Policy’ (2023) and ‘Creating Human Value: A ‘New’ Public Management Theory’ (2025).
Masato Miyazaki is Professor of Local Public Finance at Saitama University. He is one of the foremost local finance scholars currently employed in Japan, and has published two very influential books (in Japanese) on pressing problems facing the nation: The Political Economy of the Behaviour of Local Governments, and Regional Decline. He has also consulted for local governments with Professor Drew in Australia, and is a key advisor to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as well as the National Association of Towns and Villages.
