A PRACTITIONER'S VIEWPOINT
For over a quarter of a century the work and thought of Robert Parker and Dick Spann have profoundly influenced the study of public administration in Australia. Their contributions to the discipline have been so wide-ranging and so much part of an integrated whole that when dealing with matters of general principle their work is equally relevant to the Commonwealth, State and local levels of administration. However, as this appreciation of what their work meant for a practising administrator is written from the perspective of a former State public servant, I shall concentrate below on the field with which I am most familiar.