Perspectives on Australian Local Government Reform

Abstract

The Centre for Local Government at the University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales, represents one of the very few independent organisations in Australia which is focused on producing high quality research into the economic, financial, political and social dimensions of Australian local government. Members of the Centre for Local Government are drawn from universities across Australia and abroad, as well as numerous current and retired experts who have worked in local government. They bring together a remarkable variety of skills, mostly from accounting, economics, finance, and political science, but also vast experience consequent upon decades as senior managers and elected representatives in Australian local government