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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The ongoing challenge for <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">ED</jats:styled-content> leaders is to remain abreast of system‐wide changes that impact on the day‐to‐day management of their departments. Changes to the funding model creates another layer of complexity and this introductory paper serves as the beginning of a discussion about the way in which <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">EDs</jats:styled-content> are funded and how this can and will impact on business decisions, models of care and resource allocation within <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">A</jats:styled-content>ustralian <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">EDs</jats:styled-content>. Furthermore it is evident that any funding model today will mature and change with time, and moves are afoot to refine and contextualise <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">ED</jats:styled-content> funding over the medium term. This perspective seeks to provide a basis of understanding for our current and future funding arrangements in <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">A</jats:styled-content>ustralian <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">EDs</jats:styled-content>.</jats:p>