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Lyndel Bates Research Director Queensland Parliamentary Service

PREVENTING INJURIES ON A STATE-WIDE BASIS: RESEARCHERS AND PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES ARE PARTNERS IN TURNING INJURY PREVENTION AND SAFETY RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE AND POLICY. Lyndel Bates Research Director Queensland Parliamentary Service. OVERVIEW. Strengths of parliamentary committees

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Lyndel Bates Research Director Queensland Parliamentary Service

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  1. PREVENTING INJURIES ON A STATE-WIDE BASIS: RESEARCHERS AND PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES ARE PARTNERS IN TURNING INJURY PREVENTION AND SAFETY RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE AND POLICY Lyndel Bates Research Director Queensland Parliamentary Service

  2. OVERVIEW • Strengths of parliamentary committees • Overview of reformed committee system • Previous inquiries • Becoming involved

  3. WHAT IS A PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE? • Group of Members of Parliament delegated a role by the Parliament • All party membership • Established by Acts of Parliament, Standing Orders or resolution of the Legislative Assembly

  4. WHAT DO COMMITTEES DO? • Examine and report on legislative proposals, proposed expenditure (estimates), public accounts and public works • Conduct inquiries into matters of public importance and report findings to the Parliament • Monitor and report on independent statutory offices • Deal with matters referred by the Assembly

  5. NEW COMMITTEE SYSTEM

  6. INQUIRY PROCESS Decision Monitoring implementation Public submissions Research Debate in the house Public consultation Ministerial response Consider the evidence Tabling of report Drafting

  7. YOUNG DRIVER AND RIDER INQUIRIES • Focus on young driver and rider issues • Consulted with stakeholders • Two reports that made 33 recommendations between them • Reports tabled in Parliament December 2003 • Government responded March 2004 • Bates (2010)

  8. POST-INQUIRY • Government supported or partially supported a number of recommendations • Government undertook further consultation • Introduced the Transport Legislation and Another Act Amendment Bill in November 2006 • Bates (2010)

  9. EVIDENCE OF COMMITTEE INFLUENCE • Almost 1/3 of Members mentioned the inquiries during their second reading speech • Acknowledgement of the then Minister for Transport • Acknowledgement of other Members • Bates (2010)

  10. BENEFITS OF RESEARCHER INVOLVEMENT • One mechanism that enables research to be turned into policy, practice and legislation • Recommendations based on research results • Another way the government can learn about different research • Bates and Hansen (2008)

  11. BECOMING INVOLVED (1) • Researchers become a stakeholder • Make submissions • Respond to requests for information • Appear as witness at public hearing if invited • Bates and Hansen (2008)

  12. BECOMING INVOLVED (2) • Emphasise the key findings and implications • Understand difference between lobbying and providing informed recommendations • Consider committee members backgrounds • Develop a working relationship with committee staff • Bates and Hansen (2008)

  13. BECOMING INVOLVED (3) • Jurisdictional implications • Cost of the proposed measure • Difficulties transplanting measures • Identify size of benefit • Bates and Hansen (2008)

  14. REFERENCES Bates, L. 2010, Parliamentary committees are important in developing policy: Evidence from a Queensland case study, Australasian Parliamentary Review, 25(2), 14-26. Bates, L. & Hansen, R. 2008, Parliamentary committees turn road safety research and ideas into practice: Examples from Australia, International Journal of Health Promotion and Education, 46(4), 122-127.

  15. QUESTIONS Lyndel Bates Research Director Queensland Parliamentary Service 61 7 3406 7470 Lyndel.Bates@parliament.qld.gov.au

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