Councils accused of willful ignorance on infrastructure
Concerns have been raised about the way councils are assessing the value of ageing assets.
11 June, 2019
Posts Tagged: infrastructure-backlog
Revealed: $30bn needed for ageing infrastructure
Under-investment in councils’ management of community assets is leading to increased risk, warns major report.
19 November, 2018
Baird’s upsized councils an excuse to flog big loans: Labor
Infrastructure backlog unloaded onto ratepayers.
18 February, 2016
Forced amalgamation spectre returns for NSW councils
Baird shifts posts on O’Farrell’s promise
11 September, 2014
Cash-strapped Central Darling Shire Council facing suspension
By Paul Hemsley and Julian Bajkowski The New South Wales government has moved swiftly to use its new authority to bring badly struggling local governments in the state to book through issuing a notice of suspension under Early Intervention powers. The state’s Local Government Minister Don Page on Tuesday hit Central Darling Shire Council with […]
11 December, 2013
Victorian rates hike blamed on superannuation slug
By Paul Hemsley and Julian Bajkowski The Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV) has blamed unpopular rate hikes averaging 4.8 per cent or $76 on growing ‘critical’ cost pressures arising from the need to top-up $396.9 million worth of unpaid liabilities for the Defined Benefit Superannuation Shortfall, a yawning infrastructure backlog and pervasive cost shifting to […]
8 July, 2013
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