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Two Way Governance: Presentation 10
Ministers bring plans for their portfolios
to Cabinet, where they have to argue
for the money for all of their programs.
Cabinet then decides whether to
support the plan or not.
If the plan means some laws need to
be made or changed, it will go to
Parliament for discussion and, they
hope, approval - first to the House
of Representatives and then to
the Senate.
Once Parliament votes for the plan,
the Minister will tell the public service
department CEO what the government
wants done and the department does it.
The department has to report to the
Minister and the Parliament on its
progress.
When the Government passed the Aboriginal Land Rights Act, they told
the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to make it work.
DAA had to report to the Parliament on how it was doing that.