State leaders will sit down with PM Tony Abbott on Friday to work out how to cut duplication. Source: AAP
PRIME Minister Tony Abbott will enlist the help of the states to cut red tape and get new road and rail projects moving.
Mr Abbott will join state and territory leaders in Canberra on Friday for the year's first Council of Australian Governments meeting.
On the agenda will be the terms of reference for a new federalism policy, which Mr Abbott promised at the 2013 election.
Combined with the results of the national commission of audit, the white paper will map out how better cooperation between the different levels of government can improve the lives of all Australians and get budgets under control.
Overlap between the functions of local, state and federal governments is wasting billions of dollars a year.
The previous COAG meeting in December agreed on a "one-stop shop" approach to environmental regulation for major economic projects.
The premiers are expected to sign off on the white paper terms of reference on Friday.
The state leaders will be seeking an indication of how much they will receive in infrastructure funding following an asset sales deal struck in March with Treasurer Joe Hockey.
Under the deal, the commonwealth will provide an additional 15 per cent of the value of an agreed asset sale back to the states.
The proceeds of any assets sold - such as electricity networks or ports - would be put into new road, rail and port projects.
Also on the agenda is the removal of red tape and overlap from the system of adopting children from overseas.
School and disability care funding will be discussed, as will a report on the future of manufacturing.
It will be the first COAG meeting for Tasmania's new Liberal premier Will Hodgman.
SA's Jay Weatherill and the ACT's Katy Gallagher will be the only Labor leaders in the room.
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