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Threatened councils say no to Sydney mergers

24 November 2009

LOCAL government has dismissed a renewed call by the Sydney Business Chamber to slash the number of Sydney councils from 42 to under a dozen and sees a glimmer of hope for a relaxation of rate-pegging in a report due to be handed to the State Government this week. The chief executive of the chamber, Patricia Forsythe, said in an opinion piece in the Herald last week that Sydney's 470 local councillors needed to move away from arguing over the appropriate size of a backyard swimming pool on to bigger issues such as affordable housing and infrastructure renewal... read full story

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