TY - Report AU - Gareth Griffith PY - 2013 T1 - Local government: review of current issues PB - Parliamentary Research Service (NSW) DO - https://doi.org/APO-33134 UR - https://apo.org.au/node/33134 AB - When one considers the range of services and regulatory functions performed by local government, it is not surprising that issues concerned with this third tier of government are never far from the political agenda. These include concerns about governance and accountability, the delivery of infrastructure, revenue and funding arrangements and, at the top end of the debate there is the question of the constitutional recognition of local government at the Commonwealth level. ER -