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Constitutional And Fiscal Federalist Perspectives On The Australian Commonwealth Government Roads To Recovery Funding Programme

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  • Brian Dollery
  • Bryan Pape
  • Joel Byrnes

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Australian local government is widely acknowledged to be under severe financial distress that has been mainly manifest in local infrastructure under-investment. The Commonwealth government’s Roads to Recovery funding programme has provided substantial funding relief to municipalities to provide local roads. However, the sheer monetary scale of Roads to Recovery and its direct funding of councils make it unique in Australian fiscal federalism and thus eminently deserving of research effort. Unfortunately, Roads to Recovery has been almost completely ignored by the academic community. This article seeks to remedy this neglect by exploring Roads to Recovery from two perspectives: The legal status of Roads to Recovery and its economic characteristics in terms of the theory of fiscal federalism.

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  • Brian Dollery & Bryan Pape & Joel Byrnes, 2008. "Constitutional And Fiscal Federalist Perspectives On The Australian Commonwealth Government Roads To Recovery Funding Programme," The IUP Journal of Governance and Public Policy, IUP Publications, vol. 0(4), pages 34-51, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:icf:icfjgp:v:03:y:2008:i:4:p:34-51
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    1. Monica Nagpal & Michael A. Kortt & Brian Dollery, 2013. "Bang for the Buck? An Evaluation of the Roads to Recovery Program," Economic Papers, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 32(2), pages 239-248, June.
    2. Brian Dollery & Sue O’Keefe & Lin Crase, 2009. "State Oversight Models for Australian Local Government," Economic Papers, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 28(4), pages 279-290, December.

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