Gus Charteris conducted an independent review and evaluation of the inquiry. His report is structured around the Commissions' performance measures and is available to download here.
Evaluation
Local government funding and financing
The Productivity Commission has completed its inquiry into local government funding and financing and presented its final report and recommendations to Government. An independent evaluation has been carried out against the Commission's performance framework. This uses three external sources of feedback: an expert review, focus group and online survey.
Expert review
Focus group review
Two focus groups were arranged to gather the views of a wide range of stakeholders on the Commission's performance. The following report presents the results of those focus groups.
Online survey
100 people responded to an online survey about the local government funding inquiry. Download the following report to read the responses to the survey. All answers are anonymous.