Local Government Amalgamations
Amalgamation has been the principal public policy tool employed by Australian architects of local government reform. The purported reasoning for forced amalgamations is that larger councils are able to achieve economies of scale and thus produce services
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cal Government in Australia History, Theory and Public Policy
Local Government in Australia
Bligh Grant Joseph Drew •
Local Government in Australia History, Theory and Public Policy
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Bligh Grant Institute for Public Policy and Governance University of Technology Sydney Sydney, NSW Australia
ISBN 978-981-10-3865-5 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-3867-9
Joseph Drew Institute for Public Policy and Governance University of Technology Sydney Sydney, NSW Australia
ISBN 978-981-10-3867-9
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Preface
Away from the commanding heights of Australia’s polity, local governments comprise a vital domain of the organisation of people’s lives, ranging from providing fundamental services to property and to people through to their role as the third tier of Australia’s federal democracy. They also undertake these responsibilities in what, for several decades now, has been an environment of seemingly unrelenting reform. Despite the centrality of local governments in people’s day-to-day lives, we assert—and in this we are hardly alone—that local governments in Australia are not afforded the dignity they deserve. More often than not, this lack of dignity is decried by pointing to the economic importance of local government or by emphasising their role as democratic mechanisms, or indeed both. In part this book is a testament to this importance. Yet we also assert, perhaps to the disconcertion of some of our colleagues, that local government is a worthy—indeed a fascinating—area of academic inquiry fr
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