APPENDIX 3

COMMONWEALTH GRANTS COMMISSION TABLES ON STATE REVENUE SHARING RELATIVITES 2008

Table E-5      Contribution of services to the redistribution

1. Total movement from EPC, calculated as the sum of total positive (or negative) components.

2. Expenses in the group as a percentage of total net State expenses for the years 2002-03 to 2006-07.

3. Includes urban transit and roads.

4. Includes general public services, superannuation, and GST administration.

Table E-6      Relative costs of providing services — average of 2002-03 to 2006-07

1. Includes urban transit and roads.

2. Includes general public services, superannuation, and GST administration.

Table E-7      Contribution of expense disabilities to redistribution

1. Total movement from EPC, calculated as the sum of total positive (or negative) components.

2. Includes the effects of the use of services by Indigenous people and higher costs of servicing them, including the effects of land rights and native title legislation.

3. Includes the effects of age, sex, cultural and linguistic diversity, income and the cross-border use of services.

4. Includes costs of office rent and electricity, interest rates; the isolation of some States from major sources of supply in south-east Australia; and accrued expenses and historical costs of superannuation.

5. Includes effects of urban complexity, urban traffic management, and urban transit capital and pricing subsidies.

6. Includes the net effects of population dispersion and of geographic location on hospital costs and patient transport.

7. Includes effects of structure and nature of State economies, road use, availability of private medical services, and the ACT’s status as the national capital.

8. Includes the effects of climate, natural hazards, conservation task, water availability, other aspects of the physical environment, and road and bridge length.

9. Includes some miscellaneous small factors and interactions between factors.

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