Figure 2 Performance framework, 2004–05
| To provide support to the Prime Minister
and to achieve a coordinated approach to the development and implementation
of government policies |
| Government policies, decisions, objectives,
priorities and strategies |
| Government and parliamentary machinery
and programmes |
| Requirements of the Prime Minister as
head of government and Chairman of Cabinet |
| Portfolio Budget Statements |
| Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements |
Corporate
and operational plans:
- Chief Executive Instructions
- Risk management plan
- Fraud control plan
- Internal audit plan
- Disability action plan
|
Output Group 1: Economic policy advice
and coordination
Coordination of government policies
on economic, industry, infrastructure and environment issues |
Output Group 2: Social policy advice
and coordination
Policy development and advice to government
on social policy issues, including health, community services, education,
employment, immigration, indigenous policy, veterans’ affairs,
income support, families and issues affecting women |
Output Group 3: International, and national
security, policy advice and coordination
Advice on international issues, including trade and aid policy,
and on national security issues, including defence policy, intelligence,
counter-terrorism, border protection and certain criminal law enforcement
issues |
Output Group 4: Support services for
government operations
Policy advice on parliamentary, machinery of government, legal and
cultural issues, administration and coordination of Cabinet and Executive
Council business, government communications, the Prime Minister’s
official establishments, national awards and symbols, state occasions
and official visits |
Pivotal support to the Prime Minister
to deliver:
- the Australian Government’s response
to the Indian Ocean tsunamis
- the Australia–Indonesia Partnership
for Reconstruction and Development
- the Australia–United States and
Thailand–Australia free trade agreements
- the RAMSI package of additional funding
- the Enhanced Cooperation Package with
PNG
- successful visits by six heads of state
and five heads of government
- a nationally consistent approach to
licensing ammonium nitrate
- measures to enhance security for Australia’s
offshore oil and gas facilities
- the implementation of the recommendations
of the inquiry into Australia’s intelligence agencies
- administration of caretaker conventions
in the pre-election period
- enhanced administrative arrangements
in the post-election period
- extension of the Humanitarian Overseas
Service Medal
- the establishment of the APEC 2007,
Health, and Welfare to Work taskforces
- effective COAG operations
- the A New Workplace Relations System
reform package
- the Tasmanian Community Forest Agreement
- the establishment of the NWC
- water policy and the implementation
of the National Water Initiative
- 24 Australian Technical Colleges
- new administrative arrangements in indigenous
affairs
- the Australian Government’s response
to the parliamentary inquiry into child custody
|
| Degree of satisfaction of the Prime
Minister, ministers assisting and the parliamentary secretary, the
Governor-General in the case of the Executive Council functions,
the Prime Minister’s office, and other stakeholders |
| Sound and well-coordinated government
policies, programmes and decision-making processes |
| A collegial approach in supporting
the Prime Minister on a whole-of-government agenda over the full
range of international and domestic policy issues |
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