Tumbarumba amalgamation protests intensify

They’re mad as hell down Tumbarumba way. The Snowy Mountains town best known for John O’Brien’s wonderful poem ‘Up at Tumba-bloody-rumba shootin’ kanga-bloody-roos’ has become the touchstone for renewed opposition to the NSW Government’s disastrous forced council amalgamation strategy. In May 2016 the local council was merged with neighbouring Tumut Shure to form Snowy Valleys […]

18 February, 2018

Woollahra Council set for High Court showdown with Berejiklian over merger

Residents could take up the fight if council loses.

2 May, 2017

Council merger protestor to contest Skinner’s North Shore seat

Could Orange by-election shock repeat itself?

6 March, 2017

NSW council anti-merger campaigners plot revenge after Skinner’s official resignation

Third by-election triggered.

22 February, 2017

Orange by-election no longer a one-horse race

Alan Jones leads convoy to Orange.

7 November, 2016

Community groups call for Toole’s head over council mergers

Backlash building for Baird.

25 February, 2016

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

Community action on council amalgamation ramped up in NSW

Evidence weak for mergers, strong for joint organisations: NSW parliamentary inquiry.

1 October, 2015

Coalition of the unwilling fights NSW council forced mergers

Save Our Councils Coalition makes a noise.

15 June, 2015