© 2013 National Council of the Institute of Public Administration Australia. This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Dilemmas of Federalism and the Dynamics of the Australian Case, Australian Journal of Public Administration, Volume 72, Issue 3, pages 220–227, September 2013, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12024