State-imposed limitations on local government revenue and expenditure represent an especially draconian form of regulation. In Australian local government, New South Wales (NSW) has a longstanding rate-pegging regime, the Northern Territory (NT) caps mining and...
The economic structure of local government areas (LGAs) of the Northern Territory (NT) are mapped and analyzed using economic base theory. Using a three-stage geospatial visualization we find that: 1) Mining and agriculture are predominantly providing job...
State-imposed limitations on local government revenue and expenditure represent an especially draconian form of regulation. In Australian local government, New South Wales (NSW) has a longstanding rate-pegging regime, the Northern Territory (NT) caps mining and...
Professor Dollery recently traveled to Lisbon to deliver a presentation - ‘Australian Local Government Sustainability’, to Beyond the Financial Sustainability of Municipalities: New Challenges for Local Management Conference, Technical University of Lisbon, on 7...
While structural reform by means of municipal mergers has been employed in many different countries, council consolidation has been especially marked in Australian and Japanese local government. This suggests that much can be learned by examining amalgamation...
Professor Brian Dollery of the UNE Centre for Local Government has secured a research grant for $25,000 from the South Australian Local Government Association (SALGA) Local Government Research and Development Scheme (LGR&DS) which funds applied research into...
Professor Brian Dollery's expert opinion was recently included in an article on NSW state government's Fit for the Future reform around staged rate increases, noting that submissions including rate raises are to be considered a calculation for the purposes of the...
UNE Business School's Centre for Local Government have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Armidale Regional Council, as reported by Council August 30, 2016. The MOU will run for three years and will involve collaborative work on a range of areas....
NSW Local Government Minister Paul Toole’s has recently put forward claims that newly merged councils have already saved millions since merging on May 12. Prof Brian Dollery has joined Dr Joseph Drew from UTS in questioning the claims made by Toole, quoted in...
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