depa’s submission to the Legislative Council Local Government Enquiry

The Legislative Council has established a General Purpose Standing Committee to enquire into Fit for the Future and the potential for local government reforms including compulsory boundary changes. The final report is due on 24 August.

The Committee will consider a range of issues which are relevant to the interests of employees in the industry - including “evidence of the impact of forced mergers on municipal employment, including aggregate redundancy costs”.

This is a perfect opportunity to develop and enhance our policy view in an expanded version of the article we ran in May’s depaNews. And a good opportunity to get our Dirty Harry/Mike Baird image and mischief to a wider public.

Here is our submission.

It’s in the Minister’s office but nothing’s happening. It has been:

since the Government and the Minister were appointed on 5 April 2023. We are still waiting for the legislative changes required.

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