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Administrative Secrecy and Ministerial Responsibility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

K. W. Knight*
Affiliation:
University of Queensland
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Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association 1966

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References

1 Rowat, D. C., “How Much Administrative Secrecy?” this Journal, XXXI, no. 4 (11 1965), 479–98.Google Scholar Page references in the text are references to this article.

2 Cf. Schellenberg, T. R., Modern Archives (Melbourne, 1956), pp. 225 ff.Google Scholar

3 As it is, the telephone may be regarded as “the great robber of history.” See Hasluck, Paul, “Problems of Research on Contemporary Official Records,” Historical Studies: Australia and New Zealand, V, no. 17, (11 1951).Google Scholar

4 Chapman, Brian, “The Ombudsman,” Public Administration (London), XXXVIII (Winter, 1960), 308.Google Scholar

5 Parker, R. S., “Official Neutrality and the Right of Public Comment,” Public Administration (Sydney), XX, no. 4 (12 1961)Google Scholar, and XXIII, no. 3 (Sept. 1964). Chapman, Brian, British Government Observed: Some European Reflections (London, 1963).Google Scholar

6 Kitson Clark, G., “‘Statesmen in Disguise’: Reflexions on the History of the Neutrality of the Civil Service,” Historical Journal, II, no. 1 (1959), 19.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

7 Though there are still quite stringent restrictions of some types. To obtain a pass early last year for entry to the Executive Building in order to use the Bureau of the Budget's Library, for instance, I had to be “screened” and fingerprinted. This process took about two weeks.

8 Cf. Chapman, , “The Ombudsman,” 308.Google Scholar

9 Cf. Chapman, , British Government Observed, 39.Google Scholar