Mr Barr said the ACT government would advocate for commitments to end public service decentralisation that came at a disproportionate cost to the territory and had been done for political purposes.

Mr Barr said a broader conversation about the future of the Australian Institute of Sport site was also needed after bipartisan support was confirmed for revitalisation work and safety upgrades required to reopen the mothballed AIS Arena.

"Following this work, it's time for a long-term plan for the future of the AIS precinct in Bruce, including the arena and stadium. This should include a revitalisation of the precinct with mixed-use development such as affordable housing, a hotel, retail, cafes, restaurants and bars," Mr Barr said in a statement.

The ACT government's list of hoped-for election commitments comes after the Liberal senator for the ACT, Zed Seselja, announced the federal government had locked in $11.4 million to arena whether the Coalition formed government again or not.

Mr Barr will also stand alongside other states and territories to call for a permanent no-worse off guarantee for the goods and services tax pool, ahead of changes that could see the ACT lose out on how much of the tax's revenue comes back to the territory.

But the Chief Minister's list of preferred federal election commitments does not include lifting the ban on the ACT and the Northern Territory legislating on voluntary assisted dying, an issue Mr Barr last year said would become a campaign theme.

The government would also target a commitment for funding security for the national institutions, including the gallery and library.

Any pledge should include a commitment "to support the institutions' role as a major contributor to the nation's arts and cultural heritage".

The institutions have shed staff and been forced to wind back some programs and services as a result of cuts implemented since the Coalition was elected in 2013.

Mr Barr believes the ACT should receive a share of the Commonwealth infrastructure budget in proportion to the territory's population.

The Chief Minister criticised the federal government after the March 29 budget, which distributed 0.3 per cent of infrastructure funding to the territory, despite it being home to 1.68 per cent of the Australian population.

"This means the ACT government will, once again, do the heavy lifting on job-creating infrastructure investments," Mr Barr said at the time.

"It is clear that we need a change in federal government for the ACT to get a fair deal on national infrastructure spending."

The ACT government will also seek a plan during the campaign to increase social and affordable housing in the territory, with the ACT eager to partner with the federal government to deliver more housing stock for these areas.

Such a commitment would recognise that a lack of access to adequate housing was a national priority, Mr Barr said.

Australia also needed to adopt a consistent national energy policy to guarantee energy security as the country moves towards net-zero electricity emissions, he said.

The Chief Minister's election priorities list includes an extension to the COVID-19 national partnership agreement on health funding, which Mr Barr said should be extended from September 30, 2022 to June 30, 2023.

A 6.5 per cent cap on growth in Commonwealth contributions to state and territory health funding also needed to be increased to ensure states and territories had adequate funding to run health services, Mr Barr said.

Mr Barr said the Commonwealth needed to make the no-worse-off guarantee for the GST permanent. The guarantee was made as part of a transition period into a new method of determining how the tax revenue would be carved up around the federation.

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Sluggish wage growth in the ACT, primarily a result of an artificial cap on pay rises for federal public servants, will mean the territory is allocated a smaller share of the goods and services tax pool, the Commonwealth Grants Commission has determined.

But payments designed to prevent states and territories going backwards during a six-year transition period for the way the tax is distributed will mean the ACT does not lose out on $5 million.

The commission's assessment of GST relativities show the ACT would receive about $1.09 for every $1 collected by the tax in 2022-23, down from $1.16 in 2021-22, without the no-worse-off payments.

Mr Barr in March said he was "cautiously optimistic" federal Labor leader Anthony Albanese could lead the party to victory after nine years of a federal Coalition government.

He revealed he was even more optimistic about a Labor victory than he was ahead of the 2019 election, when Bill Shorten was widely expected to sweep to power.

"Having pored over the data and the public opinion polls, and we have been assured by those who conduct them that they've corrected for some of the errors that have occurred previously, there's cause for optimism," he said

"But it ain't done until it's done."

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