Dear Editor,
Regarding the story Albo fund our Councils!
Well may the new Nationals Member for Parkes complain about the inadequate funding of NSW local government, but this conveniently overlooks the constitutional fact that local government is a function of the NSW state rather than the Federal Parliament, and the quiet compliance of his predecessor during the nine years of Coalition misgovernment.
Perhaps the former Mayor of Gunnedah will take on the Department of the Premier & Cabinet about the transfer of many state costs into the local government accounts to balance the NSW budget. Oh dear, that would be embarrassing so the Office of Local Government has been flicked off elsewhere by the Minns NSW Labor rather than fix the under-funding problem.