Referring to all 3 levels of government together

NoniH commented 7 years ago

What do you need?

How do we refer to all 3 levels of government together? E.g. Federal/commonwealth, state and territory and local government.

For example: This tool cal be used when applying for all Australian government services (federal, state and territory and local).

Things to consider: How will this make use of the government naming conventions currently in the guide?

Government

joolswood commented 7 years ago

We did a survey to focus on what we call the national government (Australian Government) but not all 3 levels.

Possibly the results may still help with the naming of the others.

joolswood commented 7 years ago

NoniH commented 7 years ago

Thanks for the survey results Jools. It would be good to make a call on this in the next clinic.

joolswood commented 7 years ago

Hi @NoniH we discussed this in Content Clinic and we we're hoping you can take a look at some other style guides and see how they've done it?

NoniH commented 7 years ago

I can't seem to find any official style guides that refer to using the three levels of government together. Do you know of any?

References I can find: Federal, state and local (commonly used both in Australia and internationally)

Federal (or national) Parliament, in Canberra. State/territory parliaments, in each state/territory capital city. Local councils (also called shires or municipalities), across the nation. [http://www.peo.gov.au/learning/fact-sheets/three-levels-of-law-making.html ] Federal, state or territory and local. [http://education.aec.gov.au/teacher-resources/three-levels.html] Local government or councils (also called shires or municipalities). State or territory governments. Federal government. [http://www.aec.gov.au/indigenous/files/iepp-factsheet-three-levels.pdf]

It seems pretty clear that:

federal is the most common way to refer to the Australian Government.
local is the most common reference for local municipalities, however it is often referred to as "local council" rather than "government".
there is difference for state/territory, State and Territory, or just state.

Is there preference between the following?

Or any other suggestions?

NoniH commented 7 years ago

Wording on GOV.AU: [https://www.gov.au/about] the Australian Government and state, territory and local governments

This does fit within the current style guide so is then perhaps preferable.

joolswood commented 7 years ago