Author Archives: Alex

Revitalising Local Government: Panel recommends new regional structures (part 3: comments and conclusions)

Posted on 23 January, 2014 by Alex

This is the third in a series of posts about the recently-released NSW Independent Local Government Review Panel’s final report Revitalising Local Government. In my first post I provided a brief overview of section 11 of the report which deals … Continue reading →

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Revitalising Local Government: Panel recommends new regional structures (part 2: state-local cooperation and strategic planning)

Posted on 22 January, 2014 by Alex

This is the second in a series of posts about the recently-released NSW Independent Local Government Review Panel’s final report Revitalising Local Government. In my last post I provided a brief overview of section 11 of the report which deals … Continue reading →

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Revitalising Local Government: Panel recommends new regional structures (part 1)

Posted on 20 January, 2014 by Alex

I indicated in my previous post on the release of the NSW Independent Local Government Review Panel’s final report Revitalising Local Government that I intended to provide a summary of the report’s key findings and recommendations, especially in relation to … Continue reading →

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The NSW Independent Local Government Review Panel releases final report

Posted on 8 January, 2014 by Alex

The NSW Independent Local Government Review Panel’s final report, Revitalising Local Government, has just been released. The Panel was established in March 2012 and was asked to look at ways to strengthen the effectiveness of local government in NSW. The review process … Continue reading →

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The second Sydney airport – dead, or just resting? (part 3)

Posted on 26 August, 2013 by Alex

As with my previous posts, a disclaimer – I was the CEO of WSROC, the Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils, from 1996 to 2008 and therefore was involved in many of the debates about the proposed second Sydney airport. … Continue reading →

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Recent Presentation: Options for Regional Collaboration

Posted on 24 August, 2013 by Alex

Recently I presented on this topic to a joint SGS and University of Technology Centre for Local Government Roundtable on “service delivery in a changing context”. My presentation was based on research I have prepared over the past two years analysing ROCs in NSW … Continue reading →

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Report on Australian and New Zealand Local Government reforms released

Posted on 13 June, 2013 by Alex

The Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government (ACELG) has published a snapshot of current local government review and reform processes in Australia and in New Zealand that were active in late February and early March 2013. The research report, … Continue reading →

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Another Sydney transport travesty as rail promise shunted

Posted on 29 May, 2013 by Alex

Today’s announcement that Federal Government funding earmarked for the Parramatta-Epping rail link in Sydney’s west has been shifted to a fund for projects not to be built until after 2019 should come as no great surprise, but it is still … Continue reading →

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The second Sydney airport – dead, or just resting? (part 2)

Posted on 27 December, 2012 by Alex

First, a disclaimer – I was the CEO of WSROC, the Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils, from 1996 to 2008 and therefore was involved in many of the debates about the proposed second Sydney airport. In my previous article … Continue reading →

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The second Sydney airport – dead, or just resting? (part 1)

Posted on 27 December, 2012 by Alex

Recent media reports point to a revival of plans to build a second Sydney Airport at Badgerys Creek, almost a decade since the proposal was (supposedly) killed off by both sides of politics. The current state of play and how … Continue reading →

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