Garnaut Fitzgerald Review of Commonwealth-State Funding

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CHAPTER 10: Efficiency and Economic Growth To help overcome these problems, design parameters for a new, efficient and equitable system of Commonwealth–State funding arrangements should include: • simplicity • freedom for States to manage in their areas of competence • attention to broad national outcomes • removing disincentives and political biases against good economic performance. FINAL REPORT [154]
CHAPTER 11: Simplicity, Transparency and Accountability – Anomalies and Unintended Consequences CHAPTER 11: Simplicity, Transparency and Accountability – Anomalies and Unintended Consequences • Australia’s system of Commonwealth–State financial arrangements is a ‘black box’ which is a barrier to rigorous, open analysis and debate on ways to improve it. • There are substantial and unnecessary costs involved in administering the system, and it has a number of inherent irregularities and anomalies. • The concepts used by the Commonwealth Grants Commission to determine States’ expenditure needs and revenue capacities – policy neutrality and average State policy benchmarks – are flawed. • Commonwealth–State funding arrangements need to be simple and transparent. • Australian electorates cannot properly evaluate Commonwealth and State Government performance in service delivery, because responsibilities are blurred and general purpose grants are used for purposes other than the ones they are allocated for. 11.1 Introduction The commitment to fiscal equalisation across States, and the complexity of the process designed to achieve it, have become much greater in the late 20th century (Chapter 2). The evolutionary development of general purpose grants and specific purpose payments (SPPs) has led to a complex, opaque set of arrangements. One obvious consequence is significant problems of accountability to the electorate and other stakeholders at Commonwealth and State levels. The problem is manifested in numerous methodological approaches that make sense within the internal logic of the allocation process, but which appear anomalous to those who are not specialists within the system. FINAL REPORT [155]
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TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 9: Equity
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THE REVIEW COMMITTEE FINAL REPORT [
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Overall assessmen
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CHAPTER 3: The Current System FINAL
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APPENDIX A: National Health and Age
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GLOSSARY Efficiency: allocative eff
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GLOSSARY merit goods (health, educa
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FINAL REPORT [234] GLOSSARY
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Buchanan, JM 2001, Fis
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Government of Victoria
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Watts, RL 1999, Compar
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INDEX E economic activity / growth
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INDEX O other Federations Canada ·
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