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Title: | Regional Development and Local Government: Three Generations of Federal Intervention | Contributor(s): | Kelly, Andrew (author); Dollery, Brian E (author); Grant, Bligh (author) | Publication Date: | 2009 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/4529 | Abstract: | Contemporary Australian local government faces several daunting problems, not least escalating financial un-sustainability and local infrastructure depletion. The main response of the various state and territory governments has taken the form of a series structural reform programs, with a strong emphasis on forced amalgamation. However, widespread dissatisfaction with the consequences of these compulsory consolidation programs has led to a search for alternative policy solutions based largely on shared services and various types of regional co-operation between local councils. This paper seeks to place proposed 'regional' solutions to contemporary problems in historical perspective by providing a comparative account of three distinct federal government initiatives of 'region-directed' policy in the post-World Two era: the 'nation-building' of the 1940s; the 'paternalism' of the 1970s; and 'self-sufficiency' of the 1990s. We argue that, not withstanding the complex relationship between historical circumstances and changing state-federal relations, important lessons for current local government policy making can be learnt from a critical assessment of these episodes of federal intervention at the regional level. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, 15(2), p. 171-193 | Publisher: | Australia and New Zealand Regional Science Association International Inc (ANZRSAI) | Place of Publication: | Australia | ISSN: | 1324-0935 | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 160601 Australian Government and Politics | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 940203 Political Systems | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal | Publisher/associated links: | http://www.anzrsai.org/system/files/f8/f4/f51/f55/o321//Kellyetal.pdf |
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