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• Caretaker Period
  As of 19 July 2010 the Australian Government has assumed a caretaker role with an election to be held on 21 August 2010. Information on this website will be published in accordance with the Guidance on Caretaker Conventions circulated by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
• Joint Media Release: Release of the Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Outlook (PEFO) (26/7/2010)
  Consistent with the requirements of the Charter of Budget Honesty Act 1998, the Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Outlook (PEFO) will be released at 2:00 pm on Monday 26 July 2010.
• Joint Media Release: Release of the Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Outlook (PEFO) (23/7/2010)
  Consistent with the requirements of the Charter of Budget Honesty Act 1998, the Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Outlook (PEFO) will be released on Monday 26 July 2010.
• Joint Media Release: Costing of Election Commitments (20/7/2010)
  The Charter of Budget Honesty Act 1998 (the Charter) outlines arrangements under which the Secretaries to the Treasury and of the Department of Finance and Deregulation may be requested to cost Government and Opposition election commitments during the caretaker period prior to a general election.
• Media Release 41/2010 - Declaration of Open Government (16/7/2010)
  Minister for Finance and Deregulation Lindsay Tanner made a Declaration of Open Government on behalf of the Australian Government today.
• Two New Directors Appointed to the Board of Australia Post (16/7/2010)
  Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Stephen Conroy, and Minister for Finance and Deregulation, Lindsay Tanner, today announced the appointments of Mrs Jenny Seabrook and the Honourable Trish White as Directors of the board of Australia Post.
• Joint Media Release - Government Releases Website Accessibility National Transition Strategy (30/6/2010)
  People with disabilities will have better access to Australian Government websites as a result of the implementation of new website accessibility guidelines.
• Joint Media Release - Release of Costing Election Commitments Guidelines by the Secretaries to the Department of Finance and Deregulation and the Treasury (11/6/2010)
  The Secretaries to the Department of Finance and Deregulation and the Treasury (the Secretaries) today released the Costing Election Commitments 2010 guidelines.
• Joint Media Release 21/2010 - National Broadband Network (11/5/2010)
  The Rudd Government is providing additional funding to deliver the National Broadband Network (NBN) that will boost productivity and transform Australian lives, improve education and health service delivery and connect cities, regional and rural centres across Australia.
• Joint Media Release 20/2010 - Nation Building Rail Investment (11/5/2010)
  The Rudd Government will invest a further $1 billion in the government-owned Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) to upgrade even more of its 10,000 kilometre network - work, supporting up to 1,500 jobs.
• Media Release - 19/2010 Budget Delivers More than $1.2 Billion in Efficiencies from Government Operations (11/5/2010)
  Improving the efficiency of government operations has delivered $1.2 billion in savings in the 2010/11 Budget.
• Media Release - 18/2010 Government Delivers on Transparency and Accountability (11/5/2010)
  The Rudd Government has continued to deliver on its commitment to provide more information to taxpayers on Government spending.
• Access to Commonwealth land for mineral exploration and mining activities (15/4/2010)
  The Lands Acquisition Act 1989 (LAA) governs approval processes for access to Commonwealth land for the purposes of exploration and mining.
• Joint Media Release 24/2010 - Commonwealth and Territory Agreement on National Archives (13/4/2010)
  Cabinet Secretary, Senator Joe Ludwig, has today announced an in-principle agreement with the Northern Territory Government to co-locate the National Archives office in Darwin.