The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) met yesterday for the first time since the 24 November federal election completed a Labor hat trick across the country.
The communique issued at the meeting's end was optimistic, covered quite a few areas of concern and did seek some restructuring of how COAG operates.
The 20th COAG meeting communique:
However, most recent COAG meetings ended with an upbeat communique running a spin on cooperative effort across many areas of concern. The meeting last year was a good example.
The 19th COAG meeting communique:
The proof of true COAG cooperation will of course be tested further down the track. Right now there is more than a little hype attached and everyone is still visibly overattached to those underwhelming campaign slogans.
One has to wish COAG well and hope that years of entrenched adversarial interaction have not ruled out change for the better.
Wall-to-wall Labor governments are a yet untested combination.
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