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Abstract:
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The public release of this paper is a concluding stage of the extended research, investigation and consultation process known as the Western Australia Study Group for Local Government in Western Australia. The 2005 WALGA AGM passed a resolution for WALGA to lead the development of a framework that would assist individual councils to review, debate, and consider the future sustainability of local government and to ensure the framework encompassed the assessment of economic, social capabilities and capacities of individual communities and regions. In late 2005 WALGA appointed a three member panel panel chaired by Professor Greg Craven to research and investigate the sustainability of local government in Western Australia. This Systemic Sustainability Study Panel (SSS Panel) was supported by the commissioning of a report by Access Economics called: Local Government finances in Western Australia. The SSS Panel report (called: In your hands) was released in December 2006. Then WALGA convened 5 Working Parties made up of councillors and senior local government managers from across the state which addressed themes from the SSS Panel report. This paper is constructed from around the outputs of these working parties.
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