Sydney councils slugging ratepayers with large rate rises still have tens of millions of dollars in the bank, despite ...

Council meeting has a packed agenda, with Councillors being asked to endorse the IPART approved rate rise of 15% ahead of the ...

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 ...

A hostile crowd of protesters shouted “shame” and “liar” as councillors debated the proposed rates rise at a meeting on ...

The peak body for local government in New South Wales has criticised calls for people to simply not pay rates in response to ...

A new draft agreement could see farmers footing the bill for water management reforms, sparking concern in regional NSW.

The corporation is under fire after correcting reports on native forest logging, retrospectively cutting volumes by almost 30 ...

Developers are fighting North Sydney Council’s proposal to lift rates by nearly 90 per cent over two years, arguing the ...

A Sydney council proposing a 40 per cent rate rise is splurging more than $140,000 a year on food and alcohol for official ...

Mr Hurlston, who formed the lobby group originally known as Ratepayers Victoria in 2001, said Queensland’s local government ...

Sydney residents are facing an “appalling” rate rise of nearly 90 per cent to help pay off $51 million in loans taken out by ...

NSW’s Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) has found demand tariffs can add up to $800 a year to annual bills if consumers have high use during the late afternoon or early evening.