%T Local government funding and constitutional recognition
%A Anne Twomey



%I Constitutional Reform Unit
%D 2013

%K Democracy, %K Local government, %K First Peoples constitutional recognition



%U https://apo.org.au/node/34291

%X In December 2011, the Expert Panel on the Constitutional Recognition of Local Government recommended that a referendum be held to amend s 96 of the Commonwealth Constitution to allow the Commonwealth Parliament to make grants of financial assistance to ‘any local government body formed by State or Territory Legislation on such terms and conditions as the Parliament sees fit’. This recommendation was made subject to conditions, one of which was that the ‘Commonwealth negotiate with the States to achieve their support for the financial recognition option’.
%9 Report