This report provided information and findings related to the indexation arrangements established in funding social services in Queensland. Our aim was to examine the extent to which current arrangements are appropriate. To do this, we:1) Described why the current arrangements for indexation in...

The paper estimates a parameter that captures congestion in the consumption of general government services provided by Australian state and local governments. From this estimate, the per person cost of general government services is shown to be an increasing function of population size,...

Governments are major employers, and many provide defined benefit pension plans with full inflation indexing and generous early retirement provisions. Hence, changes in thinking about, and accounting for, the costs of defined benefit pension plans have major implications for government finances....