About DAF
- DAF Charter [
PDF: 24 KB] - DAF Principles [
PDF: 26 KB] - DAF Reporting Arrangements [
PDF: 11 KB]
Documents and Reports
- DAF Leading Practice Model for Development Assessment
- Guide to Writing Objective Rules and Tests (March 2010) [
PDF: 177 KB] - Benchmarking Report (July 2009)
- Leveraging the Long-Term: An Operational Model of Leading Practice Development Assessment
- Volume 1 [
PDF: 656 KB] - Volume 2 [
PDF: 1649 KB]
- Volume 1 [
- Power point presentation on the DAF Leading Practice Model for Development Assessment [
PPT: 4669 KB] - Property Council's Reform Implementation Report Card [
PDF: 485 KB]
Benefit Cost Analysis for Electronic Development Assessment
- Final Report [
PDF: 578 KB] - Additional Modelling Report [
PDF: 260 KB] - Implementation Options for National Standard Communications Protocol for Electronic Development Assessment [
PDF: 255 KB]
Archived Documents and Reports
- Comparative Performance Measurement and Benchmarking of Planning and Development Assessment Systems (November 2002) [
PDF: 849 KB] - Communique about the DAF Leading Practice Model from Local Government and Planning Ministers' Council (4 Aug 2005) [
DOC: 58 KB] - DAF Good Strategic Planning Guide (2001) [
PDF: 482 KB] - Report from the National Meeting for EBusiness in Local Government (2001) [
DOC: 95 KB] - DAF Workshop Outcomes (1998) [
PDF: 895 KB] - DAF Implementation Plan (1998) [
PDF: 143 KB] - Time for Business [
PDF: 412 KB] - More Time for Business [
PDF: 586 KB] - Unfinished Business [
PDF: 76 KB]
Archived DAF Fact Sheets
- The Move to eDA [
PDF: 27 KB] - National Standards in DA Definitions [
PDF: 103 KB] - DAF Aims and Structure [
PDF: 19 KB] - Improved Electronic Date Exchange [
PDF: 14 KB] - National Electronic Date Exchange Standard [
PDF: 102 KB]
Archived DAF newsletters
- Issue 1 [
PDF: 137 KB] - Issue 2 [
PDF: 109 KB] - Issue 3 [
PDF: 92 KB] - Issue 4 [
PDF: 188 KB] - Issue 5 [
PDF: 146 KB]
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