02109pab a2200181 454500008004000000100002200040245006400062260000900126300001300135362000800148520155700156650002901713773004801742908000601790909001001796999001701806952010401823180718b2007   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aWettenhall, Roger  aNon-departmental public bodies under the Howard governments  c2007  ap.62-82.  aMar  aThere has been both continuity and change in the use of non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) during the Howard years. In terms of continuity, the statutory authority and its incorporated version, the statutory corporation (in whose development late 19th and early 20th century Australian governments played such an important part), have remained in wide use. In terms of change, however, two other NDPB forms offered some challenge to its popularity. The government-owned company came to be a preferred form for government business enterprises (GBEs) and, more recently, for many other non-commercial public activities as well. And the executive agency, first making its Australian appearance in 1999, seemed initially to be another significant challenger, but its numbers, never great, were soon cut back. The article examines these trends, relating them to several relevant systemic inquiries and policy changes, notably the Humphry review of the governance of GBEs, the final settlement (in 1997) of the package of financial management acts, the Uhrig inquiry of 2003 and the system-challenging pressures that have followed it. Commonwealth participation in joint (Commonwealth/subnational and Commonwealth/private) activities is also noted, as is the lack of `fit' of the Australian experience with international theorising about `agencification'. Finally, the article seeks to identify the leading figures within the Howard governme nts who have been directing both the changes and the continudities involved in these developments. - Reproduced.  aGovernment organizations  aAustralian Journal of Public Administration  aN  a73735  c73735d73735  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 66, Issue no: 1pAR74195r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR