The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (the Commission) is the principal global policy making body dedicated exclusively to gender equality and the advancement of women. Every year, representatives of United Nations (UN) Member States gather at the UN Headquarters in New York to evaluate progress on gender equality, identify challenges, set global standards and formulate concrete policies to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment worldwide.

Government has committed to improving the administration of regulation and the performance of regulators, including issuing of letters from Ministers to heads of regulators setting out performance expectations. These letters are to be issued by the end of March 2014. This guidance note is to advise departments and agencies on the drafting of the ministerial letters and the process for finalising these letters. Portfolios with internal regulators may wish to consider actioning this commitment...

The Government’s deregulation agenda requires the establishment of stakeholder consultation mechanisms by the end of 2013, for each Cabinet Minister. These mechanisms, otherwise called Ministerial Advisory Councils (MACs), will comprise business, not-for-profit and other industry stakeholders and will provide advice to each Cabinet Minister and their respective departments on opportunities to reduce red and green tape within their respective portfolios, as well as provide a broader consultation...

Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet - Annual Report 2012-13