At $543.19 a day, the ACT leads nation in prisoner costs
At $543.19 per prisoner, per day, the ACT leads the nation in incarceration costs, according to the latest Productivity Commission Report on Australia's corrective services.
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The Albanese government has appointed Grattan Institute boss and experienced economist Danielle Wood as chair of the Productivity Commission.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has appointed Chris Barrett, an economist with extensive public service and governmental experience, as the new chair of the Productivity Commission.
Kickstarting reform in essential services such as education and health has been highlighted as a key focus for Australia to shore up its future prosperity.
National news
Boosting pay packets key focus of productivity reboot
A review into Australia's woeful productivity performance is expected to contain 71 reform recommendations to lift pay packets and boost national prosperity.
Political commentary
ACT holds its lock-up record for indigenous people
"The ACT government is, of course, acutely aware of these dire outcomes and obviously conscious of the fact that when it comes to locking up Aboriginal peoples, we Canberrans are in a class of our own," writes JON STANHOPE.
Politics
Review into boosting charity donations
The Productivity Commission is to review philanthropy in Australia with the goal of the review is to boost donations to charities and meet the federal government’s goal of doubling philanthropic giving by 2030.
"The ACT government has clearly decided that enhanced growth in health costs is unaffordable and has therefore ceased funding for population growth and aging et al," write JON STANHOPE and Dr KHALID AHMED.
"That such a deterioration in the provision of social and indeed affordable housing of any description, has occurred in Canberra under a Labor/Greens coalition is as remarkable as it is disappointing," write JON STANHOPE & Dr KHALID AHMED.
While indigenous people make up less than two per cent of the ACT’s population, they also form 24.4 per cent of the population in Canberra’s prison, according to the Productivity Commission's latest Report on Government Services (RoGS)
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