Tomorrow's federation : reforming Australian government / [edited by] Paul Kildea, Andrew Lunch [and] George Williams.

Annandale, N.S.W. : Federation Press, 2012.

1st edition

79673

Federal government -- Australia.

Australia -- Politics and government.

1. Federalism under the Rudd and Gillard Governments

2. Adaptation and reform in Australian federalism

3. The COAG Reform Council : a view from the inside

4. The council for the Australian Federation and the ties that bind

5. Making room for democracy in intergovernmental relations

6. Increasing accountability at the heart of the Federation --7. Tied grants and policy reform in public hospitals and schools

8. Designing intergovernmental grants to facilitate policy reform

9. Using regulation to effect constitutional change in higher education

10. The High Court and dynamic federalism

11. The reference power : the rise and rise of a placitum?

12. Popular ratification of the state constitutions

13. A gender and change perspective on intergovernmental relations

14. Health policy as contested terrain in the Australian Federation

15. Water reform and the federal system

16. Rewriting the federation through referendum

17. Measuring the mysteries of federal political culture in Australia

18. State initiation of Section 128 Referenda

19. Deliberative constitutional change in a polarised Federation.

Table of contents and index are taken from the published work with the permission of the publisher.

Includes bibliographical reference and index.

9781862878228

xii, 384 p. : ill. ; 24 cm