Joint Media Release
02/2010
20 July 2010
Costing of Election Commitments
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. The Charter requires that costings be publicly released as soon as practicable after a costing request has been made, generally within five business days, and before polling day.
All requests for costings, completed costings and related information will be published on the joint Finance-Treasury ‘Election Commitment Costing’ website www.electioncostings.gov.au during the caretaker period.
Organisations and individuals may sign up for an RSS feed to receive scheduled alerts on all new material posted to the website, including requests for costings from the parties and costings completed by the departments.
Media releases will not be delivered in hard copy to Parliament House press boxes.
Further information on the costing of election commitments may be found in the Charter of Budget Honesty Costing Election Commitments guidelines which are available on the Finance and Treasury websites and at www.electioncostings.gov.au during the caretaker period.
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