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Governing the City StateOne ACT Gov
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LETTER OF TRANSMITTALMr Jon Stanhop
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CONTENTSEXECUTIVE SUMMARY .........
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Doing Whole of Government in the AC
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Proposed Changes...................
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Investing in Capability ...........
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Acronyms and Short Forms Used in th
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARYIn September 2010,
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There are nevertheless areas that r
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The Administrative ArrangementsWith
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5. Amend the Public Sector Manageme
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24. Strategic Board outcomes be pro
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Department of Justice andCommunity
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Figure 1 - Current and Proposed Str
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Chief Minister’s Finance Economic
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Figure 2 - Structure optionsOption
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Priority SettingThe Review recommen
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55. Improve workforce data quality
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CHAPTER ONE: BACKGROUND TO THE REVI
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Guiding Principles - Embracing Uniq
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imperatives, improvements to system
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CHAPTER TWO: CONTEXT FOR THE REVIEW
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capacity of the Commonwealth Execut
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Table 1 - Elected Members at Each L
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The ACT in 1989 and 2010PopulationI
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Figure 5 - Settlement and New Centr
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Canberra in 2010 - a Snapshot• Th
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In addition to the RLF and its rela
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• 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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Page 344 and 345: ATTACHMENT B: CONSULTATIONConsultat
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Page 350 and 351: BIBLIOGRAPHYACT Auditor-General (20
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