Sarah Wong

bolster governments’ ability to make the most of its available resources and achieve their desired goals.

Dynamic capabilities are specific abilities embedded in routines that enable organisations to adapt their resources, processes and skills in response to an evolving strategic environment.

ability to act without undue interference from other economic actors and interest groups. Both of these aspects require the ability to raise and deploy financial resources, including through taxation and investment.

formal and informal routines or ‘tasks’, and can be grouped along six types that are required to perform policy functions: analytical, planning, coordination, evaluation, policy and participation.

Water (riparian) rights in land recognise the different approach needed to govern common flows over land, such as for streams that run across property boundaries. For example, a landowner downstream, or adjacent, is entitled to receive the natural flow of the river, undiminished in quantity and quality – this places obligations on owners upstream... See more

Material and mineral rights generally come with land ownership. Some mineral rights are exempt from private ownership being reserved to the Crown (see the inter regalia), common or state interest (e.g. oil, coal, gold, silver). Rights over these materials are reallocated based on separate ownership title, or licences.