Voluntary Regional Co-operation in Australia

Title
Voluntary Regional Co-operation in Australia
Publication Date
2007
Author(s)
Marshall, Neil Alexander
Dollery, Brian Edward
Johnson, Andrew Keith
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Canadian Association of Regional Science
Place of publication
Canada
UNE publication id
une:3991
Abstract
Municipal consolidation was a major feature of local government re form across both Canada and Australia during the 1990s. In Canada, Ontario, Quebec, and most of the Atlantic provinces imposed, or encouraged, the amalgamation of municipalities. Australia' s capitals escaped the mega-city mergers of Toronto, Quebec and Halifax, bur slate-wide amalgamation programs were equally as extensive. Over the five year period 1992 - 1997, Tasmania reduced the number of its local authorities from 46 to 29, South Australia from 118 to 72, and Victoria from 2 10 to 78. Queensland undertook a more modest exercise involving nine amalgamations. As Dollery and Crase (2004: 265) observe, the long dominant perception that 'bigger is better' in the structural re form of Australian local government had changed little . Indeed, it still continues , though with somewhat diminished force. In the course of 2004, New South Wales' 172 councils were forcibly cut back to 152.2.
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Citation
Canadian Journal of Regional Science, 29(2), p. 239-256
ISSN
0705-4580
Start page
239
End page
256

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