The current boundaries |
Today's
Sunday Mail today published the results of a community survey that they had
undertaken. It shows that 64.7 % of those surveyed preferred a super
council for the wider Adelaide area. It then goes on to give both sides of the
argument.
People
vote for this because they have been led to believe that amalgamations reduce
the rates when this has not been shown to be true. Forced amalgamations nearly
always leave a very poor taste in the mouths of those most affected. While Council size of 100,000 people in inner
Adelaide may be worth a conversation sometime in the future Greater Brisbane
has 1 Councillor representing 42,500 persons (Council size is 1.2million). This
is almost as big as all of South Australia, Councillors are full time and
Councils are run or party lines. Is this what we want here? More Liberal, Labor and even NXT invading Local Government.
It is truly independent at the moment and should stay that way.
Very good point about party dominated local government in eastern state. We need to make sure that doesn't happen here.
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