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Australian Local Government And Community Engagement: Are All Our Community Plans The Same: Does It Matter?, Bligh Grant, Brian Dollery, Michael Kortt
Australian Local Government And Community Engagement: Are All Our Community Plans The Same: Does It Matter?, Bligh Grant, Brian Dollery, Michael Kortt
Bligh Grant
Community engagement has become an established technique of Australian local government planning and decision-making. However, while several commentators have considered the normative validity of community engagement strategies (see, for example, Grant and Dollery, 2011; Aulich, 2009) and others have conducted detailed studies of particular jurisdictional contexts (Prior and Herriman, 2010; Wiseman, 2006) to date a comparative study of the different Australian local government systems has not been forthcoming. As an initial step toward undertaking this comprehensive empirical task, this paper examines systems of the legislative and regulatory frameworks for community engagement in Australian local government jurisdictions. It is argued that …
A Normative Model Of Local Government De-Amalgamation In Australia, Brian Dollery, Michael Kortt, Bligh Grant
A Normative Model Of Local Government De-Amalgamation In Australia, Brian Dollery, Michael Kortt, Bligh Grant
Bligh Grant
Ongoing local community dissatisfaction in some newly amalgamated local government areas resulting from the 2007 Queensland forced amalgamation program has raised the prospect of de-merger in that state. One catalyst has been the Opposition's commitment to de-amalgamation should it acquire government. Apart from some descriptive discussion of actual de-amalgamation episodes, almost no prescriptive analysis exists on the optimal form any de-merger process may take. Using two documented cases of de-amalgamation in metropolitan and regional settings, this exploratory paper seeks to address this gap in the literature on local government by presenting a ‘stylised’ approach to de-amalgamation designed for Australian local …
Harnessing Private Funds To Alleviate The Australian Local Government Infrastructure Backlog, Brian Dollery, Michael Kortt, Bligh Grant
Harnessing Private Funds To Alleviate The Australian Local Government Infrastructure Backlog, Brian Dollery, Michael Kortt, Bligh Grant
Bligh Grant
A series of national and state public inquiries into the financial sustainability of local government have demonstrated that all Australian local government jurisdictions face a daunting local infrastructure maintenance and renewal backlog. Various solutions to the problem have been advanced in the literature, including the establishment of an Australian municipal bond market to facilitate the use of private sector finance to fund the remediation of the infrastructure shortfall (Byrnes et al., 2008). However, despite the conceptual attraction of this particular policy proposal, as a majority of Australian local authorities are small, with limited administrative and technical capacity, they would …
Protestantism And Work Ethic: Evidence From Australia, Michael Kortt, Brian Dollery, Bligh Grant
Protestantism And Work Ethic: Evidence From Australia, Michael Kortt, Brian Dollery, Bligh Grant
Bligh Grant
No abstract provided.
Councils In Cooperation: Shared Services And Australian Local Government, Brian Dollery, Bligh Grant, Michael Kortt
Councils In Cooperation: Shared Services And Australian Local Government, Brian Dollery, Bligh Grant, Michael Kortt
Bligh Grant
No abstract provided.