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Issues .............................................................................................................................. 132Functions ........................................................................................................................ 143Department of Justice and Community Safety ................................................................... 144Overview ........................................................................................................................ 144Administrative Arrangements......................................................................................... 145Proposed Changes........................................................................................................... 145Issues .............................................................................................................................. 145Functions ........................................................................................................................ 150ACT Health ........................................................................................................................ 152Overview ........................................................................................................................ 152Administrative Arrangements......................................................................................... 152Issues .............................................................................................................................. 153Functions ........................................................................................................................ 154Department of Disability, Housing and Community Services ........................................... 155Overview ........................................................................................................................ 155Administrative Arrangements......................................................................................... 156Issues .............................................................................................................................. 156Functions ........................................................................................................................ 160Department of Education and Training .............................................................................. 162Overview ........................................................................................................................ 162Administrative Arrangements......................................................................................... 162Issues .............................................................................................................................. 162Functions ........................................................................................................................ 167Department of Territory and Municipal Services .............................................................. 168Overview ........................................................................................................................ 168TAMS as the Exemplar of City State Service Delivery ................................................. 169Administrative Arrangements......................................................................................... 169
Proposed Changes........................................................................................................... 170Issues .............................................................................................................................. 170Functions ........................................................................................................................ 174Department of the Environment, Climate Change, Energy and Water .............................. 175Overview ........................................................................................................................ 175Proposed Changes........................................................................................................... 175Issues .............................................................................................................................. 176Functions ........................................................................................................................ 178Department of Land and Property Services ....................................................................... 179Overview ........................................................................................................................ 179Guiding Principles – Planning Policy and Decision Making ......................................... 179Proposed Changes........................................................................................................... 180Current Agency Overviews ............................................................................................ 181Issues .............................................................................................................................. 188Functions ........................................................................................................................ 199To go to Sustainable Development ................................................................................. 200Statutory Office Holders .................................................................................................... 201Overview ........................................................................................................................ 201Issues .............................................................................................................................. 201Appendix 1 – National Criteria for Capital City Strategic Planning Systems ................... 203CHAPTER FIVE: STRATEGY, RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND THE VACANTMIDDLE GROUND .............................................................................................................. 204Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 204The Vacant Middle Ground ............................................................................................ 205What is Strategic Policy Advice Anyway? ........................................................................ 207Strategic Policy and Direction Setting ............................................................................ 210Strategic Priority Setting and Resource Allocation ........................................................ 211
Page 1 and 2: Governing the City StateOne ACT Gov
Page 3 and 4: LETTER OF TRANSMITTALMr Jon Stanhop
Page 7 and 8: CONTENTSEXECUTIVE SUMMARY .........
Page 9: Doing Whole of Government in the AC
Page 13 and 14: Investing in Capability ...........
Page 15 and 16: Acronyms and Short Forms Used in th
Page 17 and 18: EXECUTIVE SUMMARYIn September 2010,
Page 19 and 20: There are nevertheless areas that r
Page 21 and 22: The Administrative ArrangementsWith
Page 23 and 24: 5. Amend the Public Sector Manageme
Page 25 and 26: 24. Strategic Board outcomes be pro
Page 27 and 28: Department of Justice andCommunity
Page 29 and 30: Figure 1 - Current and Proposed Str
Page 31 and 32: Chief Minister’s Finance Economic
Page 33 and 34: Figure 2 - Structure optionsOption
Page 35 and 36: Priority SettingThe Review recommen
Page 37 and 38: 55. Improve workforce data quality
Page 39 and 40: CHAPTER ONE: BACKGROUND TO THE REVI
Page 41 and 42: Guiding Principles - Embracing Uniq
Page 43 and 44: imperatives, improvements to system
Page 45 and 46: CHAPTER TWO: CONTEXT FOR THE REVIEW
Page 47 and 48: capacity of the Commonwealth Execut
Page 49 and 50: Table 1 - Elected Members at Each L
Page 51 and 52: The ACT in 1989 and 2010PopulationI
Page 53 and 54: Figure 5 - Settlement and New Centr
Page 55 and 56: Canberra in 2010 - a Snapshot• Th
Page 57 and 58: In addition to the RLF and its rela
Page 59 and 60: • disability officers (43.9 years
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Figure 9 - Sources of ACT Governmen
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Table 6 - General Government Sector
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looming risks to revenue, which wil
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• the development of a city which
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CHAPTER THREE: GOVERNING THE CITY S
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commitment to an open, accountable,
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This form of Committee meeting woul
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and cooperative relationships betwe
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Australia, should be capable of sig
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with respect to the relationship be
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undertaken, and the roles participa
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These risks can be overcome through
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specific policy areas where it is t
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Despite its inherent appeal to comm
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- and enhance its capacity to provi
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Apples and Oranges - the ACTPS and
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safer and stronger - helping commun
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The ACT's progress is measured by 2
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coordination of action. To function
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Many of the benefits of the single
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priorities and see new ways for COA
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Citizen’s dealings with the ACT G
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Canberra suggests, for example, tha
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community through the proactive use
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innovative ACTPS. Fundamental to th
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times, the operation of COAG has se
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Indeed, in playing its proper role,
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members (where they exist). Overall
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Figure 13 - The Public Interest Map
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Just because an official is exercis
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Appendix 1 - Sample of ACT Governme
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The Administrative ArrangementsThe
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• creating the Sustainable Develo
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Department of Treasury • See Chie
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• maintain the Shared Services Go
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Chief Minister’s Department(Optio
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The most influential aggregation of
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The role of the proposed Chief Mini
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through ACT Government reporting pr
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community events and major economic
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This approach is sound and reflects
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Policies, procedures and guidelines
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Triple Bottom Line sustainability p
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subsequent years the Infrastructure
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Unions ACT noted in its Submission
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While there is clearly a need to en
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As part of this work, the Review re
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across the ACTPS. Significant impro
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Independent Competition and Regulat
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Department of Justice and Community
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accreditation, dispute resolution a
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function as part of the Office for
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The Review also notes work to achie
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ACT Health(Health Directorate - Min
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Significant whole of government, co
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Minister forChildren and YoungPeopl
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The Social Compact establishes a Jo
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quality of data about Aboriginal an
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Department of Education and Trainin
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It is interesting to note in this c
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profitable courses in one area dimi
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Department of Territory and Municip
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Proposed ChangesThe Review recommen
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TAMS has already made advances in t
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PCL’s role extends to fire fighti
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IssuesSupport to the Conservator fo
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FunctionsClimate change policyEnerg
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Clearly there is a place in every p
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LDA was praised for its central rol
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(l) to provide planning services, i
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There is a high level of inefficien
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IssuesCOAG’s National Criteria fo
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• The linkages between service pr
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we envisage such a group, probably
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o Completion Bond - Bond taken as s
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In responding to the recently compl
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Business SupportThrough the course
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Land developmentLand releaseMajor l
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they discharge their responsibiliti
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CHAPTER FIVE: STRATEGY, RESOURCE AL
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number, and there was a greater ali
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adversary or attaining an end”, a
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At the core of this scenario planni
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concrete activities and areas of fo
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attempt to align streams of reporti
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• Capital Development is the ACT
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consultations with staff that they
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Much of this coordination work in w
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objectives contribute to the priori
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central direction in developing the
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desires of the Legislature to scrut
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Performance and Accountability in t
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The performance and accountability
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• conducting evaluations to a hig
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argued and accurately costed in a t
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A more significant improvement woul
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Performance and Accountability and
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Strategy, Resource Allocation and t
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too long. There is clearly an unwil
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The modelling of these values is mo
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To complement the existing work exe
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policy?Averaged rating (equallyweig
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• the greater likelihood of a nar
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The Auditor-General has recently ta
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• workplace health and safety tra
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of officials to tackle critical iss
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The Review recommends establishment
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Responding to the fiscal pressures
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Workplace culture in the ACT Parlia
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explored. With the help of benchmar
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Continuing to provide employees wit
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There is an increasing need for Ser
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… finding this ‘space’ [to in
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Figure 20 - Dimensions of Innovatio
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the past, limitations on external c
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• better information sharing to s
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The plethora of approaches to encou
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Figure 22 - Innovation CycleRecomme
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The legislative employment framewor
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Unions expressed frustration to the
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extend to matters of remuneration a
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• Develop the strategic human res
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Recommendation: Governance• the p
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ameliorate such issues, this is not
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Recommendation: Shared Services•
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This led the Commission to define s
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The second model represents each sp
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The consultation process referred t
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Suggestions:• the sustainability
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taking up to four years. ‘Plannin
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the release of residential land. As
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house prices. Among the actions tar
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The usual model is that Commonwealt
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Canberra also has an extensive walk
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ACTION staff and management are acu
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suggests that it may not be so. Con
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• unless the industrial framework
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Green CabsMany countries are embrac
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modules, each with a lead senior ex
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Dashboard ReportingThe attached tem
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ATTACHMENT A: CHIEF MINISTER’S PR
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ATTACHMENT B: CONSULTATIONConsultat
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Meetings held by the Reviewer• AH
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• RATTENBURY, Shane - Speaker, AC
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BIBLIOGRAPHYACT Auditor-General (20
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Australian Public Service Commissio
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Evans, M. (2009) “Gordon Brown an
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Mulgan, R. (2002) “Accountability
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South Australian Performance Commis
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Williams, G. (2010) “Euthanasia B
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Figure 25 - The Three Spheres of Su
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