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Table 5: Categories that include a Cross border factor and the 1993-94 effects
Category $m
Government Secondary Education 3.381
Non-Government Secondary Education 0.407
TAFE 6.280
Nursing Home Services 0.368
Mental Health Services 0.320
Community Health Services 3.976
Police 3.351
Administration of Justice 3.704
Culture and Recreation 1.384
TOTAL (a) 23.171
(a) Excludes impact of adjustment for non-residential students enrolled in compulsory years of
schooling.
Under the Medicare agreement the ACT also receives direct compensation from NSW for the cost of treating NSW patients in the ACT. This compensation is outside the scope of the Commissions assessments and is negotiated directly between the ACT and NSW. Net compensation payments for 1993-94 will total $25.5m.
2. Adequacy of National Capital Compensation
At the request of the ACT Government, the Grants Commission addressed a number of issues relating to diplomats in the 1994 Update report. These issues related to children of diplomats in the post compulsory years of schooling and in TAFE, and to motor vehicle registration fees and taxes.
Children of diplomats contribute to the ACTs above average participation rates in the post compulsory years of schooling and in TAFE. The 1993 Review recommended that funding be based at least partially on the Australian average participation rates, and consequently the ACT was not being fully compensated. This was formally drawn to the Commissions attention by the ACT, and the matter was addressed in the 1994 Update report.
In relation to motor vehicle registration fees and taxes, in the 1993 Review the ACTS revenue base was assessed as the total number of vehicles on the register. Diplomatic vehicles, which are not subject to tax, are included on the register and were therefore included in the ACTs revenue base. This had the effect of over-estimating the ACTs
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