Report warns outer Melbourne Councils face rising financial pressure
LGAs in Melbourne’s outer suburbs will face rising costs to meet the needs of growing communities, a report warns.
28 August, 2024LGAs in Melbourne’s outer suburbs will face rising costs to meet the needs of growing communities, a report warns.
28 August, 2024LGNSW says more that $1.36 billion worth of costs are shifted onto the local government sector each year.
27 November, 2023Cost shifting and inadequate federal grants are compromising public infrastructure and services, local governments say.
1 November, 2018Victoria in surplus but councils still squeezed.
27 April, 2016Infrastructure backlog unloaded onto ratepayers.
18 February, 2016State government worse offender: survey.
14 December, 2015Don’t raise your rates by more than 1.8%: IPART.
8 December, 2015Paul Toole in the firing line.
12 October, 2015NSW councils’ Rosehill meeting
8 October, 2015Local councils appeal to Treasurer.
18 February, 2015A new report by Local Government NSW has laid bare rampant cost-shifting which has forced councils to pick up a $521 mil tab in the 2011/2012 financial year.
13 March, 2014By Paul Hemsley and Julian Bajkowski The Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) has made a reinvigorated push stop the states and Canberra from dumping more service delivery functions on the doorsteps of councils without sufficient and ongoing funding. The peak body’s submission to the Abbott government’s National Commission of Audit, which is tasked with reviewing […]
3 December, 2013By Julian Bajkowski Price rises in bills to consumers from council rates and state energy suppliers have helped nudge-up Australia's official inflation rate, the quarterly figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics this week have revealed. The stronger than anticipated rise in the ABS’ Consumer Price Index of 1.2 per cent in the September […]
24 October, 2013By Julian Bajkowski The electorally popular, multi-billion dollar Roads to Recovery program should be permanently funded and councils dealt into any new road-user charging schemes a pre-election list of demands issued by Australia’s peak body for local governments says. As the federal poll date draws closer, councils across the nation have put both sides of […]
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