Areas of expertise

• Public budgeting
• Public management
• Australian politics

Profile

Joanne Kelly specialises in examining the techniques, politics and practice of public budgeting from a comparative perspective. She has worked in both government and academia, including four years as academic advisor and research fellow at the Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS) of Canada.

Assoc Prof Kelly has collaborated with practitioners and academics in Australia, Britain, the US, and she has worked with the Privy Council Office in Canada, Her Majesty’s Treasury in the UK, the General Accounting Office (GAO) in Washington DC, the International Association of Supreme Auditor Offices, and the Financial Management Institute of Canada.

In 2002, Assoc Prof Kelly was asked by the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) to co-direct a study that examined reallocation in twelve member-countries. This report formed the basis of extensive discussions in the OECD working groups of Senior Budget Officials and the Committee for Chairs of Parliamentary Committees.

Programs

Assoc Prof Kelly currently teaches in the following ANZSOG courses:

Executive Education

• Strategic Budgeting in Times of Restraint

Recent publications

Books

Book chapters

Journal articles

Reports

Conferences & lectures

Thesis


Books

• Kelly, J & Kraan J 2005, Reallocation: the role of budget institutions, OECD Public Management Committee, Paris.
• Kelly, J, Wanna, J & Forster, J 2001, Managing public expenditure in Australia, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards NSW.

Book chapters

• Kelly, J & Rubin, I 2005, ‘Budget and accounting reforms’, in E Ferlie, L Lynn & C Pollitt (eds.), The Oxford handbook of public management, Oxford University Press, New York City.
• Kelly, J 2003, ‘Pursuit of an elusive ideal: review and reallocation under the Chrétien government’, in B Doern (ed.), How Ottawa spends: policy drift, Oxford University Press, Toronto.
• Kelly, J 2003, ‘Metamorphosis in Kafka’s castle: the changing roles of central budget agencies in Canada’, in J Wanna, L Jensen & J de Vries (eds.), Controlling public expenditure: the changing roles of central budget agencies – better guardians?, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
• Kelly, J & Wanna, J 2000, ‘Are Wildavsky’s guardians and spenders still relevant? New public management (NPM) and budgetary politics’, in L Jones, J Guthrie & P Steane (eds.), Learning from international public management reform, Elsevier-Oxford Press, London.
• Kelly, J, Fleming, J & Lafferty, G 2000, ‘Politics in Australia’, in C Bullbeck & D Carter (eds.), Exploring Australia, Griffith University Press, Brisbane.

Journal articles

• Kelly, J & Wanna, J 2004, ‘Crashing through with accrual-output price budgeting in Australia: technical adjustment or a new way of doing business’, American Review of Public Administration, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 94–111.
• Kelly, J 2003, ‘Twin reforms: crashing through with accrual-output price budgeting in Australia: technical adjustment or a new way of doing business?’, International Review of Public Administration.
• Kelly, J 2001, ‘Don’t believe the mythology! Accrual budgeting in Australia and lessons for Canada’, Financial Management Institute Journal, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 17–21.
• Kelly, J 2001, ‘Accrual budgeting in Australia: getting behind the myth to learn some lessons’, Financial Management Institute Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 12–17.
• Kelly, J & Wanna, J 2000, ‘New public management and the politics of government budgeting’, International Public Management Review, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 33–56.
• Kelly, J 2000, ‘Budgeting and program review in Canada: 1994–2000’, Australian Journal of Public Administration, vol. 59, no. 3, pp. 72–78.

Reports

• Kelly, J 2002, ‘Becoming an effective budget office: issues of mandate, process, people and structure’, prepared for Secretary of the Treasury Board.
• Kelly, J 2002, ‘Addressing the reallocation issue: what do we really mean?’, prepared for the Government Operations Sector (TBS) Management Committee.
• Kelly, J 2002, ‘A survey of resource re-allocation tools: some initial findings’, prepared for the Executive Committee of TBS.
• Kelly, J 2002, ‘Lessons of Enron for public sector corporate governance’, prepared for the Secretary of the Treasury Board.
• Kelly, J 2002, ‘Explaining the changing role of central budget agencies in Canada’, prepared for and presented to the Ottawa Roundtable on Government Budgeting.
• Kelly, J 2001, ‘Applicability of a three-year expenditure management cycle in Canada’, prepared for the Secretary of the Treasury Board.
• Kelly, J 2001, ‘Impact and unanticipated consequences flowing from Finance’s information monopoly’, prepared for the Secretary of the Treasury Board.
• Kelly, J 2001, ‘Guardians, spenders and the role of TBS’, prepared for the Government Operations Sector (TBS), Management Committee.
• Kelly, J 2001, ‘Budget games and the changing role of TBS program analysts’, prepared for and presented to the Social and Cultural Sector (TBS).
• Kelly, J 2001, ‘Do the UK reforms provide any options for reducing workload in TBS?’, prepared for and presented to the Social and Cultural Sector (TBS).
• Kelly, J 2001, ‘Restructuring the Expenditure Management System in Canada: is this a ‘wicked’ problem?’, prepared for the Ottawa Roundtable: Budgeting in the 21st Century.
• Kelly, J 2001, ‘An examination of budgetary reform in the UK under Blair’, prepared for the President and the Associate Secretary of the Treasury Board.
• Kelly, J 2001, ‘Cabinet machinery options for increasing the capacity for expenditure review’, prepared for President’s Briefing.
• Kelly, J 2000, ‘Should Canada adopt accrual appropriations? Lessons from the Australian experiment’, prepared for the Treasury Board Secretariat Operations Committee.
• Kelly, J 2000, ‘Problem definition strategies in EMS reform’, prepared for Central Agencies Meeting.

Conferences & lectures

• Kelly, J 2005, ‘International perspectives on the role of national legislatures in public financial oversight – key issues and considerations’, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Forum on the Role of the Legislature in Public Finance Oversight, Nha Trang, October 15.
• Kelly, J 2005, ‘Expenditure review and the role of cabinet’, Ottawa.
• Kelly, J 2005, ‘Redefining guardianship: keynote address’, Treasury Symposium, Sydney.
• Kelly, J 2005, ‘Developing a system of review-based budgeting: organisational implications’, Expenditure Management Sector, Ottawa, June 7.
• Kelly, J 2005, ‘Slaughtering the sacred cows: reallocation in a time of static budgets’, IPAA (NSW) Forum Series, Sydney, February 24.
• Kelly, J 2004, ‘Redefining the role of budget analysts: a comparative study’, Sydney, September 1.
• Kelly, J 2004, ‘Where now with the spending review: a discussion paper for HM Treasury’, Spending Directorate at HM Treasury, London.
• Kelly, J 2003, ‘Defining the role of parliamentarians in periods of budget uncertainty’, Third OECD International Conference of Chairpersons of Parliamentary Budget Committees, Rome, June 6.
• Kelly, J 2003, ‘Budget institutions and reallocation: initial findings and issues for discussion’, OECD Meeting of Senior Budget Officials, Rome, June 4.
• Kelly, J 2003, ‘Reallocation: the international experience’, TBS-Finance Symposium, Ottawa, March.
• Kelly, J 2003, ‘Budgetary institutions and expenditure reallocation: case studies and themes for discussion and analysis’, OECD Workshop on the Political Economy of Reallocation, Paris, February 19.
• Kelly, J 2003, ‘Concluding comments: emerging themes in the analysis of reallocation’, OECD Workshop on the Political Economy of Reallocation, Paris, February 19.
• Kelly, J 2002, ‘Accrual budgeting – what does it mean for Canada?’, Certified General Accountants of Ontario: Public Sector PD Week, Toronto, May 9.
• Kelly, J 2001, ‘TBS redefined: can the management board be a budget office?’, The Financial Management Institute of Canada, Ottawa, November 27.
• Kelly, J 2001, ‘Let’s talk budgets: the difference between accrual reports, accounting and budgeting’, Public Sector Accounting Board, Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, Toronto, October 15. 
• Kelly, J 2001, ‘From Kafka’s castle to the village bazaar: changing roles of CBA in Canada’, Conference on Changing Roles of Central Budget Agencies, The Hague, June 29.
• Kelly, J 2001, ‘Accrual budgeting: what is it and why do it?’, Eighth Meeting of the Public Debt Committee: International Organisation for Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI), Toronto, May 25.
• Kelly, J 2001, ‘The messy politics of modern budgeting: EMS in Australia and Canada’, University of Victoria, Victoria BC, May 10.
• Kelly, J 2001, ‘Advancing the reform of budgetary systems in Canada’, Financial Information Systems Forum, Ottawa, March 22.
• Kelly, J 2000, ‘The deceptive simplicity of international comparison: lessons on pinching and learning’, Financial Management Institute Professional Development Week Conference, Budgeting and Management in an Accrual World, Ottawa, November 24.
• Kelly, J 2000, ‘Cabinet budget committees and expenditure control: a research note from Australia and Canada’, Twelfth Annual Conference on Public Budgeting and Financial Management, Public Budgeting, Finance, and Accountability in the Era of Devolution, Kansas City MO, October 7.
• Kelly, J 2000, ‘Are Wildavsky’s guardians and spenders still relevant? New public management and the politics of government budgeting’, Annual Conference of the International Public Management Network, Sydney, March 5.

Thesis

• Kelly, J 2000, Managing the politics of expenditure control: cabinet budget committees in Australia and Canada (1975 to 1999), Griffith University.