Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsAcademics - Political scienceHistoryProfessor Patrick Weller, AO, was educated at Oxford University and the Australian National University. He is the author of a number of books dealing with Australian politics, including Can Ministers Cope: Australian Federal Ministers at Work, Richmond, Vic., Hutchinson, 1981; Malcolm Fraser PM: A Study in Prime Ministerial Power, Richmond, Vic., Penguin, 1989; Are You Being Served? State Cities and Governance, Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 2001 (edited with Glyn Davis); and Don't Tell the Prime Minister, Melbourne, Scribe Books, 2002. In 2002, he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for 'service through research in political science and public administration and for extending knowledge of executive government'. He is currently the Premier of Queensland Chair of Governance and Public Management at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government and Director of the Centre for Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University in Queensland.
