Regional Transition Groups and Regional Collaborative Groups - A Voluntary Approach to Structural Reform in Western Australi

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Chris Berry

Abstract

The Western Australian Minister for Local Government, the Hon John Castrilli MLA announced on 4 February 2009 strategies for local government reform based on a voluntary reduction in the number of individual councils.

Western Australia has a professional and well managed local government sector that is characterised by diversity in size, revenue and remoteness. However, Western Australia is effectively the last state in Australia to experience major structural reform in the sector. Local government reform in WA is currently being implemented as a voluntary, industry led process.

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Policy and Practice

Author Biography

Chris Berry, Structural Reform, Department of Local Government, Western Australia

Manager, Structural Reform Department of Local Government Western Australia

How to Cite

Regional Transition Groups and Regional Collaborative Groups - A Voluntary Approach to Structural Reform in Western Australi. (2012). Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance, 10, 159-164. https://doi.org/10.5130/cjlg.v0i10.2696