This twelfth annual report from the Review of Government Service Provision examines the performance of all Australian governments providing education, justice, emergency management, health, community services and housing. These services account for 60 per cent of government recurrent expenditure and over 10 per cent of gross domestic product.

John Wanna examines the tortuous processes through which a charter of ‘values’ was introduced to the Australian Public Service Act in 1999. It first charts the political debates and context that shaped the introduction of these ‘APS values’, then evaluates the implementation of these values on a whole-of-government basis. He looks at how and why...

Produced by the Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision, this report reviews the performance of the states in the areas of health, community services, housing, justice and emergency management.

This is the second Report in a series that has been prepared at the request of the Council of Australian Governments. It aims to provide indicators of Indigenous disadvantage ‘that are of relevance to all governments and Indigenous stakeholders, and that can demonstrate the impact of programme and policy interventions'.

Produced by the Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision, this new report contains all indigenous data reported in the Report on Government Services 2005. Released May 2005