The new government in Australia has taken the initiative to have a meeting with all the state premiers, which is part of the normal process, and the main purpose of that has been to look at ways of improving the function of the federal system. The prime minister and the premiers of the various states and territories have come up with a very large list of things they feel they should do over the short and long term to make the federation function well.
I think the motivating force here is what works best, what is the most efficient way of delivering services and handling policy. We face a number of major challenges in Australia that really have to be done at the national level. Obviously, we face climate change. We face tremendous problems of desertification, of water shortage. We face national problems with respect to aging. We face indigenous problems. All of these really require being answered at the national level, and that is what the governments are trying to do, governments at the state and federal level. I doubt you'd get a very different answer from representatives of the state governments to those issues.