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GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS
FEDERAL/NATIONAL/
COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT
STATE GOVERNMENTS
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT
RESPONSIBLE FOR :
Collecting most taxes
Social security payments
Solely responsible for
Defence/Immigration/Foreign Affairs
Other departments may replicate
state government titles
Distributing money to states to run
services
Other examples
Education
Justice System
Social and community services. Families,
Housing, Community Services and Indigenous
Affairs (FACSia) is the federal government
department who fund many programs and
develop policy papers
Policy papers include White Paper on
homelessness, Australian framework on Child
Protection and white Paper on Domestic
Violence
POLICY /IMPLEMENTATION
In policy terms, the Federal Government
works with State Governments (COAG)
and Non-Government Organisations
(NGOS) to implement and fund many of
the recommendations
Federal govt has bigger research budget
and many policy, research publications
are available on government websites
Good federal govt site is aus.gov.au
SA GOVT Departments
sa.gov.au has a good directory of
govt services
Dept of Communites and Social
Inclusion has Housing SA, Disability
SA
Dept of Children and Education has
Families SA and education services
such as schools
Families SA responsible for the CARL
report line (Child Abuse Report Line)