What happened at the COAG meeting?
WHAT DID MALCOLM TURNBULL AND THE PREMIERS DECIDE?
TAX
- Ditched prime minister's proposal for states to levy income taxes
- Will consider taking a share of income tax revenue, offset by cuts to commonwealth grants
HOSPITALS
- Accepted $2.9 billion funding to 2020
- Agreed to reduce hospital demand by better care for people with chronic disease, hospital pricing mechanisms, reducing readmissions due to quality of care
SCHOOLS
- Agreed funding discussions should be concluded by early 2017
COMPETITION
- Agreed to develop a new competition and productivity reform agreement
- Agreement could include innovation payments and independent evaluation mechanisms
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- Welcomed final report from COAG advisory panel on reducing violence against women and children
- Noted outcomes of Victorian royal commission into domestic violence
- Agreed to hold COAG summit on domestic violence in Brisbane in October 2016
COUNTER TERRORISM
- Agreed to draft laws allowing terrorists to be detained beyond their jail terms for "preventative" reasons.
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