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9781864487138

Managing Public Expenditure in Australia

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  • Copyright: 2001-07-01
  • Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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Summary

A comprehensive examination of the changing budgeting and expenditure management practices of the Commonwealth government in Australia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments x
Abbreviations and Acronyms xiii
Budgets and Public Expenditure in Democratic Society
1(26)
Public Expenditure Management
6(2)
The Realm of Expenditure Management within Government Budgets
8(3)
Arguments and Analytical Approach
11(3)
Explaining Budgetary Behaviour
14(5)
Structure of the Book---Australian Experience from the 1960s to 2000
19(8)
Understanding the Australian Budgetary System
27(21)
Constitutional and Legislative Requirements---Budget Presentation
27(5)
Budget Cycle and Timetable
32(6)
Budgetary Functions in Australia
38(3)
Budgetary Roles, Actors and Processes
41(7)
Great Expectations: the Promise of Early Budget Reforms
48(21)
`Bottom---up' Budgeting in the 1960s and the Early 1970s
48(3)
The Search for Effective Information on Expenditure Projections
51(3)
From Guessing to Bidding---Treasury's Internal Estimates of Expenditure
54(3)
Uncertain Expectations: Forward Estimates and Budgetary Control
57(6)
Deficiencies and Disillusionment with Forward Estimates
63(3)
Cash Limits on Departments: Imposing Crude Expenditure Controls
66(1)
The Seeds of Reform
67(2)
The Enduring `Problem' of Treasury
69(26)
Treasury's Three Distinct Roles
70(4)
Whitlam, Treasury and Coombs
74(2)
The Difficulties in Determining the Agenda and Focus for RCAGA
76(2)
Treasury Recognised as an Enduring `Problem'
78(4)
RCAGA's Criticism of Treasury's Three Roles
82(9)
Integration Between Treasury Divisions: Fact or Fiction?
91(4)
Splitting the Treasury: Humpty's Great Fall
95(21)
The Lead---up: Political Exasperation with Treasury
97(5)
The Split: A Case of Prime Ministerial Autonomy
102(4)
The `Expenditure Management' Rationale
106(2)
Treasury Split and Finance Created
108(4)
The Reaction to Humpty's Great Fall
112(2)
Prioritising Reform
114(2)
More Control...More Spending: the Paradox of the Fraser Years
116(31)
Institutional Autonomy for the Central Budget Agency
117(4)
Refining the Objectives of the Department of Finance
121(2)
Intensified Pressure to Live within Budgets
123(5)
The `Razor Gang': Review of Commonwealth Functions (1980-81)
128(4)
Budget Innovations under Guilfoyle: Bilaterals, Portfolio Programs, Consideration of Program Appropriations
132(4)
Back to Business: the Reid Committee's Review of Commonwealth Administration
136(6)
The 1982-83 Budget: When Politics Again Triumphed Over the Budget Process
142(3)
The Paradox of the Fraser Years
145(2)
Unfinished Business: Budget Reform Under Hawke
147(36)
Competing Manifestos: Coombs, Reid and Labor & Quality of Government
148(4)
Labor's Wake---up: Inheriting a Projected $9.6 Billion Deficit
152(2)
Installing the `Troika'
154(2)
John Dawkins as Finance Minister with Responsibility for Public Service
156(2)
The Guardian of the Guardians: Peter Walsh and the Crusade Against `Middle---class Welfare'
158(1)
Cabinet's Expenditure Review Committee---Reviewing Existing Expenditures
159(3)
Setting the Budget Parameters: Aggregate Limits and Savings Targets
162(4)
Budgetary Reform Under Labor
166(6)
Portfolio Budgeting
172(2)
The Enticement of Program Budgeting
174(3)
Toughening Up the Forward Estimates Process
177(4)
Parsimony and the Public Purse
181(2)
From Control to Management: the FMIP and Beyond
183(37)
Introducing the FMIP: Managerialism, Finance and the PSB
186(4)
The Emergent Aims of the FMIP
190(4)
Implementing the FMIP
194(2)
Evaluating the FMIP
196(5)
Toward One Line Budgets---the Running Costs Arrangements 1987-88+
201(6)
Annual Clawbacks---Imposing Efficiency on Running Costs
207(4)
Resource Agreements---an Alternative to Clawbacks?
211(1)
Program Evaluation to Find `Savings'---Asking Value for Money
212(4)
Watching the `Watcher': Evaluating the Performance of Finance
216(4)
Surplus to Deficit: the Keating Roller---Coaster
220(20)
Keating's Big Spending Gamble
222(2)
Record Deficits
224(2)
Dawkins' Debacle---the Budget of 1993-94
226(3)
We've Cut Outlays by More than Anyone
229(2)
Keeping the Score with Offsets
231(3)
The Introduction of Multi-year Expenditure Planning
234(4)
Playing Hide and Seek with the Deficit
238(2)
The New Business of Budgeting: Expenditure Management Under Howard
240(30)
The Coalition's 1996 Election Commitments
241(2)
Setting a New Budget Agenda: Finding an $8 Billion `Black Hole'
243(3)
Symbolic Politics: the 1996 National Commission of Audit
246(3)
Wielding the Axe: Retaining the ERC to Impose Budget Discipline
249(3)
Selling the `Horror Budget' of 1996-97
252(2)
Toward Budget Honesty---Utopianism v Realism
254(4)
And Now for More Spending
258(2)
Making Budgets More Business-like: Accrual-based `Output-Price' Budgeting
260(10)
Cutting Expenditures, Avoiding Deficits and Managing Surpluses
270(30)
Budgetary Asymmetries and the Cutting of Expenditure
271(4)
The Role of Expenditure Cuts and the Difficulties of Cutting Budgets
275(2)
Party Incumbency and Expenditure Cuts: do Ideological Differences Matter?
277(3)
Recording and Measuring Expenditure Cuts
280(4)
Selling Austerity to the Public: a Study of Two Budgets
284(8)
Cutting Back Deficit Expenditure
292(2)
Managing Surpluses
294(3)
Maintaining Surpluses in the Future
297(3)
Is Public Expenditure Better Managed Now?
300(15)
Appendices 315(12)
A.1 Prime Ministers, Treasurers and Ministers for Finance 1949-2000
315(2)
A.2 Secretaries to the departments of Prime Minister & Cabinet, Treasury, and Finance & Administration 1949-2000
317(2)
B A Brief Chronology of Forward Estimates in Australia 1965-2000
319(4)
C Functional Allocation of Commonwealth Outlays 1975-76 to 2003-04
323(2)
D Real Growth in Commonwealth Outlays 1969-70 to 2001-02
325(2)
References 327(16)
Index 343

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