Avoid court over rate debts, councils told

Local government actions to recover unpaid rate debts make up almost a third of NSW’s local court civil matters.

26 November, 2018

Councils hiking rates ‘behind closed doors’: report

New audit raises concerns that local governments in Queensland could be hiking rates beyond the legal limit and are failing to disclose reasons for rate increases, prompting a call for regulatory reform.

6 July, 2018

Victorian local council rates outcry: Will services suffer?

Rate cap set at 2 per cent.

19 December, 2016

IPART reduces rate peg again: NSW councils told to tighten their belts

Merged councils hamstrung.

29 November, 2016

IPART “fiddling around the edge” with NSW local council rates

Ratepegging here to stay.

29 August, 2016

Roads will crumble but services improve under mega councils: experts

Promised savings unlikely to materialise form mergers.

22 June, 2016

Baird crushes NSW council mergers resistance with iron fist

Nineteen new councils, more to follow.

13 May, 2016

Rates time bomb for NSW mega councils

Four-year rates freeze for merged councils.

26 April, 2016

Baird kicks open door to rate rises with fresh IPART inquiry

Four-year freeze on merged council rates examined.

13 April, 2016

Rash of public inquiries into NSW council mergers

New councils announced by mid-2016.

18 January, 2016

Another kicking for NSW councils as rate cap reduced

Don’t raise your rates by more than 1.8%: IPART.

8 December, 2015

Ratecapping redux: Victorian councils fear NSW councils’ fate

The introduction of ratecapping in Victoria has cast a shadow over its local councils.

2 December, 2015

NSW councils give government minister a serve

Paul Toole in the firing line.

12 October, 2015

Rates, roads and water: Local Government NSW conference

NSW councils’ Rosehill meeting

8 October, 2015