Asset management: are we on the right road?

Our data suggests a quarter of NSW councils are yet to develop asset management systems that would help them respond to the roads infrastructure backlog, says Annalisa Haskell.

23 April, 2018

Best of 2016: Baird seizes financial control of NSW councils

Oversight powers sent to Auditor General.

20 December, 2016

Baird’s upsized councils an excuse to flog big loans: Labor

Infrastructure backlog unloaded onto ratepayers.

18 February, 2016

Forced amalgamation maps of doom released: NSW council mergers

NSW councils to be twice the size of the average Victorian council.

18 December, 2015

NSW council mergers: Baird swings axe on 40 local governments

Premier goes all in on risky big number amalgamations.

18 December, 2015

Community Cabinet minister telethon hots up over NSW council mergers

Phone bombing latest tactic in war over forced council amalgamations.

16 December, 2015

Australian councils face 10 years of mergers and outsourcing

“Changing Landscape” survey paints a bleak picture.

25 November, 2015

Hundreds flock to anti-council mergers rally in Sydney

Alan Jones blasts “lying” NSW Government at mass protest.

18 November, 2015

Show of force by rebel NSW councils

Eleventh-hour council merger meetings state-wide.

16 November, 2015

Call to end NSW rate capping

Unfit councils to be culled instead.

3 November, 2015

The money or the gun? NSW council merger battle

Rebellious councils risk cash and cheap loans.

26 October, 2015

Should NSW council mergers go to a vote?

And do ratepayers know what’s good for them?

22 October, 2015

NSW councils vow to beat Baird down on forced mergers

Mike Baird the ‘ratepayers’ friend’?

21 October, 2015

$2bn NSW council merger savings? Try $13 per person a year…

Unlucky bottom line.

20 October, 2015