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Local Councils:

The local councils currently have the following areas of responsibility:

Animals, council clean ups, community meetings, Development Approvals, Footpaths, Rubbish/recycling, Green waste, Halls for hire, Illegal dumping, Librarys, Parking, Parks and beaches, rates, trees.

With the state level of government gone, there will be a number of additional responsibilities:

Anniversary messages, Community services, JP appointments, Planning, Public Housing, Public Transport, roads (except interstate highways), Youth Services.

Regional governments:

We are not wanting to have a fixed concrete number of regional governments as this will cause a massive disagreement on how big the regional governments should be and how many of them we need in Australia. The only levels of governments that we want recognised in the constitution are the federal and the local councils.

However, there will be periodic occasions where a number of local councils will need to meet together to solve a problem that relates to their region or city and is not confined to their local government area. These regional governments are formed by representatives of each local council that is taking part in the discussions. These meetings are not forming another level of government in Australia, but are a practical response to regional issues and the decisions are binding. Councillors will receive no extra pay for attending these meetings and no additional public elections needs to be held.

For example all the local concils in the Sydney basin may send one representative to a regional Sydney government meeting relating to public transport planning in greater Sydney. The head of RailCorp/Cityrail would report to this meeting on a periodic basis etc. For more information see government.

Background:

Right now we have three levels of government - national, State/Territory and local, and other scales of regional administration and governance - policing command areas, for example, so we have three levels of government, but at least four or five levels of government administration. Australia can manage fine with just national and local governments, and regional administrative and governance units that represent easy to achieve fine tune adjustments of the corresponding administrative and governance units in our current system.

Local governments don't need to be constructed because they're already there. Regional governments would have to be constructed and be a great cost to the Australian taxpayer so they are needed only on an ad hoc basis.

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