Councils asking for huge rates risers are sitting on million-dollar gold mines
Sydney councils slugging ratepayers with large rate rises still have tens of millions of dollars in the bank, despite ...
NSW Forestry Corporation overstated timber harvest data over three years
The corporation is under fire after correcting reports on native forest logging, retrospectively cutting volumes by almost 30 ...
Townsville Bulletin4d
Council merger promise broken as bureaucracy bill up by $40m
Northern Beaches Council is paying millions more on staffing costs than all three former councils combined prior to their amalgamation, despite government promises to ratepayers that they would pay ...
The Toowoomba Chronicle4d
Council merger promise broken as bureaucracy bill up by $40m
Then-NSW Premier Mike Baird and Minister for Local Government Paul Toole released IPART's Review of Local Council Fit For The Future proposals and amalgamated the three former councils along with ...
Armed robbery in Revesby1d
February Meeting To Discuss Financial Sustainability
Council meeting has a packed agenda, with Councillors being asked to endorse the IPART approved rate rise of 15% ahead of the ...
The Daily Telegraph5d
Council merger promise broken as bureaucracy bill up by $40m
The revelations come two weeks after councillors voted to slug residents with a nearly 40 per cent increase over three years, with angry ratepayers calling on the NSW government to step in to ...
The Courier-Mail5d
Council merger promise broken as bureaucracy bill up by $40m
Don't miss out on the headlines from NSW. Followed categories will be added to My News. The revelations come two weeks after councillors voted to slug residents with a nearly 40 per cent increase ...
‘Sack them all’: North Sydney councillors vote for 87 per cent rate rise at rowdy meeting
A hostile crowd of protesters shouted “shame” and “liar” as councillors debated the proposed rates rise at a meeting on ...