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Chairman's foreword

Note from the Steering Committee

The Committee's Inquiry

• I Functions of the Federal-State Relations Committee
• II Appointments to the Committee
• III Terms of Reference of the Federal-State Relations Committee
• IV Introduction to the Report

Executive summary of Volume 1

Recommendations

Guide to Register entries

Chapter 1: Commonwealth-State transfers in Australia

• The basis of Commonwealth-State transfers
  • Vertical fiscal imbalance
  • Causes of vertical fiscal imbalance in Australia
  • Commonwealth-State transfers in the Constitution
• Types of Commonwealth-State transfer
  • General Revenue Assistance
  • Specific Purpose Payments
  • State Fiscal Contributions
  • Total Commonwealth transfers to the States
  • Trends in Commonwealth transfers to the States
• Summary

Chapter 2: Identifying Specific Purpose Payments received by Victoria

• Commonwealth Budget Papers
• The Federal-State Relations Committee’s Register of Specific Purpose Payments
  • Comparing the Register to the Commonwealth Budget Papers
• Summary

Chapter 3: The impact of Specific Purpose Payments on policy

• Costs resulting from overlap and duplication
• Conditional payments and the effectiveness of policy
  • Housing
  • Health
• The impact of Specific Purpose Payments on the Victorian Government’s policy and financial autonomy
• Specific Purpose Payments and Victoria’s expenditure of non-conditional funds
• The proportion of total Commonwealth transfers to Victoria that are Specific Purpose Payments
  • Specific Purpose Payments as Commonwealth expenditure
  • The impact of Specific Purpose Payments on accountability and autonomy
  • The Dental Health Programme
  • Principles for conditional funding

• Department of Human Services
• Department of Infrastructure
• Department of Justice
• Department of Natural Resources and Environment
• Department of State Development
• Department of Treasury and Finance

1. Glossary
2. Questionnaire distributed by the Committee to Victorian Government Departments
3. Comments to the Committee from the Department of Education
4. Submissions to date
5. Meetings and witnesses to date
6. Bibliography

List of Tables in Volume 1

Index to Volume 2

Department of Human Services

• H1 Aged Care Assessment Services
• H2 Assistance for Housing
  • H2.1 Housing Interest Assistance
• H3 Broadbanded Health Service Programmes
  • H3.1 Blood Transfusion Services and Factor VIII
  • H3.2 Bone Marrow Donor Registry
  • H3.3 Nationally Funded Centres
  • H3.4 Pathology Services
  • H3.5 Victorian Artificial Limbs Programme
• H4 Children’s Services - Capital
• H5 Children’s Services - Current
  • H5.1 School-aged Child Care
  • H5.2 Take a Break Occasional Child Care
• H6 Compensation for Extension of Fringe Benefits to Pensioners & Older Long-Term Allowees & Beneficiaries
• H7 Crisis Accommodation Assistance (part of CSHA)
• H8 Disabilities Services
  • H8.1 Commonwealth-State Disabilities Agreement
• H9 Essential Vaccines
• H10 Health Programme Grants
  • H10.1 Victoria Cytology Service
• H11 Highly Specialised Drugs Programme
• H12 Home and Community Care
• H13 Hospital Funding/Base Medicare
• H14 Housing Assistance for Aborigines (part of CSHA)
• H15 Housing Grants - Untied
• H16 John Flynn Medical Student Scholarship
• H17 Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• H18 Medicare Related
  • H18.1 Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
  • H18.2 Outpatient Programme
  • H18.3 Palliative Care
  • H18.4 Pharmaceuticals for Victorian Public Nursing Homes
  • H18.5 Public Patients Hospital Charter
  • H18.6 Waiting Lists
• H19 National Public Health
  • H19.1 Aged Influenza Immunisation Programme
  • H19.2 Alternative Birthing Services Programme
  • H19.3 BreastScreen Victoria
  • H19.4 Cervical Cancer Screening
  • H19.5 Drug and Alcohol Programmes
  • H19.6 Funds to Combat AIDS
  • H19.7 National Education Programme on Female Genital Mutilation
  • H19.8 National Women’s Health Programme
• H20 National Youth Suicide Strategy
  • H20.1 Rural Youth Counselling Services
• H21 Natural Disaster Relief
• H22 Other Medicare
  • H22.1 Bonus Funds
  • H22.2 Incentives Package
  • H22.3 Mental Health Reforms
  • H22.4 Other Health Services
• H23 Rural Domestic Violence - Referral
• H24 Rural Obstetrics Pilot Study
• H25 Supervision & Welfare Support for Humanitarian Minors Without Parents in Australia & for their Caregivers
• H26 Supported Accommodation Assistance Programme
  • H26.1 National Case Management Strategies
  • H26.2 Supported Accommodation Assistance Programme
• H27 Transfer of Repatriation General Hospitals
• H28 University Departments of Rural Health
• H29 Youth Health Services
  • H29.1 Innovative Health Services for Homeless Youth

Department of Infrastructure

• I1 Financial Assistance-Local Government and General Assistance
  • I1.1 Financial Assistance Grants
• I2 Financial Assistance-Local Government Identified Road Funding
  • I2.1 Local Roads Grants
• I3 Interstate Road Transport Act (1985) Payments
• I4 National Highway System and Roads of National Importance
  • I4.1 National Highway System
  • I4.2 Roads of National Importance
• I5 Road Safety Black Spot Programme

Department of Justice

• J1 Compensation - Companies Regulation
• J2 Confiscated Assets Trust Fund
• J3 Film and Literature Classification
• J4 Human Rights Co-operative Payment
  • J4.1 Human Rights Co-operative Payment (Equal Opportunity)
• J5 Legal Aid
• J6 National Firearms Programme

Department of Natural Resources and Environment

• N1 Forestry Development
  • N1.1 Statewide Private Forestry Programme
• N2 National Heritage Trust

Department of State Development

• S1 AusIndustry Enterprise Development Programme
  • S1.1 Enterprise Improvement Programme
• S2 AusIndustry Enterprise Networking Programme
• S3 AusIndustry Textile, Clothing and Footwear Enterprise Development Programme
• S4 Technology Support Centres Programme
  • S4.1 Advanced Manufacturing Technology

Department of Treasury and Finance

• T1 Debt Redemption Assistance
• T2 Natural Disaster Relief
• T3 Rural Adjustment Scheme
• T4 Sinking Fund on State Debt
  • T4.1 Commonwealth contribution to the Debt Retirement Reserve