Graham Gorrel | Opinion, May 22, 2015

May 22 2015 - 8:00pm

ALIGNING a debate by Wagga City councillors about the issue at the intermodal freight hub at Bomen with urgent change to the Australian Constitution might be seen as drawing the long bow. The debate - much of it right on the mark - indicates the parlous financial predicament that local government finds itself in and which, particularly in NSW, demands the immediate revoking of the 1993 ill-prepared Local Government Act. It is just one reason why we need a new constitution via an apolitical evaluation by a modern-day Sir Henry Parkes of the current three tier system of government.

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