In some local governments, the forced mergers of 2016 are very unpopular, and the groundswell of support for demerging and returning to the former councils has not waned over time. The Government sought to create efficiencies and build strategic capacity through larger local governments, but ratepayers are concerned with the loss of representation, identity and voice that came with the mergers.
Morrison Low has been involved in various merger and now demerger analyses over the past six years, and has written an article reflecting some of these observations.
Read in full here.
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