Endnotes
1.Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Population by Age and Sex, Australian States and Territories, 3201.0, 2009,www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/3201.0;Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Ageing Populations: High Time for Action, a background paper presented at the Meeting of G8 Employment and Labour Ministers,, 10-11March2005.
2.Peter Cappelli, ‘Will there really be a labor shortage?’, Human Resource Management, vol.44, no.2, 2005, pp.143-49.
3.Colin Hughes, The Government of Queensland,University of Queensland Press,, 1980, p.205.
4.W. Lawrence Neuman, Social Research Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches,Allyn andBacon,, 2000.
5.OECD, Ageing Populations;ABS, Population by Age and Sex, 2009.
6.OECD, Ageing and the Public Service: Human Resource Challenges,OECD,, c2007, p.18:http://www.sourceoecd.org/9264029702
7.OECD, Ageing Populations;ABS, Population by Age and Sex, 2009.
8.OECD, Ageing and the Public Service.
9.Ibid., p.23.
10.Linda Colley andRobin Price, ‘Responding to an ageing workforce in an Australian state’, inDimitrios Koufopoulos, andMaria Argyropoulou(eds), Doing Business in the Global Economy,Athens Institute for Education and Research,, 2009, pp.273-86;OECD, Ageing and the Public Service.
11.SeeGerard Caiden, Career Service,Melbourne University Press,, 1965;Linda Colley, ‘Approaches to the merit principle in Queensland Public Service recruitment: From rich and dumb to gender discrimination to politicisation?’, Australian Journal of Public Administration, vol.65, no.1, March2006, pp.146-60.
12.Stafford Northcote andCharles Trevelyan, Report on the Organisation of the Permanent Civil Service, submitted to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty inFebruary, 1854(Great Britain, House of Commons, Papersno. 1713).
13.E.N. Gladden, ‘Charles Trevelyan and Civil Service Reform’, Public Administration(), vol.13, September1954;Ken Knight, ‘The career service in Australia: From patronage and profit to probity?’, inG.R. Curnow andB. Page(eds), Politicization and the Career Service,Canberra College of Advanced Education and the NSW Division of the Royal Institute of Public Administration,, 1989;Northcote andTrevelyan, The Report on the Organisation of the Permanent Civil Service.
14.Northcote andTrevelyan, The Report on the Organisation of the Permanent Civil Service.
15. Civil Service Act of 1889:Regulation for the Examination of Candidates for Admission to the Ordinary Division of the Civil Service,Queensland Government Gazette, 29March1890, pp.1121-23, r.4;Queensland Public Service Board, Report of the Public Service Board for the year 1911,Government Printer,, 1911.
16.Caiden, Career Service, p.25
17.Hughes, The Government of Queensland.
18.Colley, ‘Approaches to the merit principle’, p.49;Civil Service Act Regulation 1890();Civil Service Board (Queensland), Annual Report, 1890.
19. Public Service Act Amendment Act 1901(), s.6.
20. Queensland Parliamentary Debates, 24October1901, pp.1464-66.
21.General Officers Association, The State Service, September1919;October1920;September1921.
22. Public Service Act 1922 Regulations 1922-24();3rd Annual Report of the Public Service Commissioner for the year ended30June1923(), p.5.
23.R.G.S. Brown, The Administrative Process in Britain,Camelot Press,, 1970;Emmeline Cohen, The Growth of the British Civil Service 1780-193 9,Frank Cass and Co,, 1965.
24.Public Service Commissioner (Queensland), Annual Reports, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944.
25.Clem Lack, Three Decades of Queensland Political History 1929-1960,Government Printer,, 1961;Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Acts (War Service Preference in Employment) Act 1944();Public Service Commissioner (Queensland), Annual Reports, 1945, 1947.
26.Public Service Commissioner (Queensland), Annual Report, 1965;Australian Public Service Board, The Public Service Board 1923-1973,Australian Government Printing Service,, 1973.
27.Public Service Commissioner (Queensland), Annual Reports, 1956, 1958.
28.D.W. Fraser, ‘The Public Service of Queensland’(1958), inD.W. Fraser, The Public Service of Queensland 1859-1959: Selected PapersofD.W. Fraser, Australian Institute of Public Administration, Queensland Regional Group Monograph no. 4, 1981, p.16.
29.Public Service Commissioner (Queensland), Annual Report, 1958.
30.Public Service Commissioner (Queensland), Annual Reports, 1965, 1967
31.Colin Hughes, The Government of Queensland;Public Service Board (Queensland), Annual Reports, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1983.
32.Colin Hughes, The Government of Queensland;Public Service Commissioner (Queensland), Annual Report, 1968;Public Service Board (Queensland), Annual Reports, 1980, 1985
33.Hughes, The Government of Queensland;Public Service Commissioner (Queensland), Annual Report, 1968;Public Service Board (Queensland), Annual Reports, 1980, 1985
34.Ron Howatson, Queensland Public Service: A Short History of Legislation from 1922 to 1987, Royal Australian Institute of Public Administration (Queensland Division), Monograph no. 11,, 1988;Public Service Board (Queensland), Annual Reports, 1978;1979;1980;1983;1984;1985.
35.Public Service Board (Queensland), Annual Reports, 1980;1984;Office of Public Service Personnel Management (Queensland), Statistical Report, 1988.
36.Public Service Board (Queensland), Annual Report, 1980.
37. Queensland Parliamentary Debates, 19November1987.
38.Queensland State Service Union, The State Service, October1986, p.7.