Australia’s Inefficient Federalism

Australians pay a wasted $9 billion in tax each year, equal to $1100 per family … These billions of dollars are a conservative estimate of the Business Council of Australia. It is how much the community pays for the duplication of services, buck-passing and inefficiency that bedevils the relationship between our federal and state governments.

From op-ed titled ‘So Much Government, So Little Done’, by George Williams,
The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 March 2007, p. 11.

Australians pay a wasted $9 billion in tax each year. That equates to $1100 a family – money being used, without gain, to prop up our dysfunctional federal system. Those billions are a conservative estimate by the Business Council of Australia.

From op-ed titled ‘Dated System Rips Us Off’ by George Williams, The Mercury, 14 March 2007.