Coalition of Celebrant Associations

Australia’s Peak Celebrant Body

2. Consultation with Stakeholders

The Department of Finance’s Best Practice Guidelines2 and the Cost Recovery Guidelines3 also highlight the principle of consultation, the former stressing prior consultation and the latter “appropriate” consultation.

CoCA considers that allowing significant4 Cost Recovery Measures to be implemented at budget time, allows the Government to by-pass its own “best practice” guidelines.

Secondly The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary defines “consultation” asa formal discussion between groups of people before a decision is made about something5

So communication processes after a decision has been made to apply Cost Recovery from the Stakeholders perspective, cannot be termed “consultation” (perhaps a conversation, dialogue, talk, chat or debate) and cannot be considered as meeting the principles behind these Guidelines that are intended for Cost Recovery strategies to be

  • Cost efficient 6
  • Cost effective 7
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