ANALYSIS: Don't let the numbers fool you: The jobs crisis is going to get worse
a permanent feature of the way Australia is governed is potentially one of the most significant outcomes of the crisis.
The non-functional nature of federal-state relations was often mentioned as standing in the path of "reform" by business groups.But it has been more than that. It's not just things like tax reform that have been hampered by federal-state frictions: almost anything you care to think about — schools and health funding, infrastructure are just a few of the obvious ones.
"It will have a job-making agenda. And the National Cabinet will drive the reform process between state and federal cooperation to drive jobs." There were the obvious howls about how could Treasury have gotten a number so wrong. The Opposition had a field day, as any pragmatic group of politicians presented with such an opportunity would, with observations such as that this was an error you could see from space, and questioning the Government's competence to run things.
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