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Cost creep onto councils
Research for the LGAQ has revealed councils are picking up a massive $360 million tab each year to deliver services that are the responsibility of other levels of government and the private sector.
More about Cost creep onto councils…Least funded level of government
Councils receive just three cents in every dollar of tax raised in Australia.
More about Least funded level of government…Survey lifts the lid
Councils are providing everything from health and morgue services to paying for CCTV, rebroadcasting free-to-air television, operating childcare, running bakeries, supermarkets and post offices.
Campaign Facts
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No level of government provides so many immediate, critical services as your local council.
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From the footpath you stand on to the road that runs past it carrying the rubbish truck that empties your bins to the pipes and taps that deliver clean water for you to drink - it is councils – and locals like you - that are providing those services.
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But today’s councils do so much more than roads, rates and rubbish. They are stepping in to provide extra services to ensure our communities remain liveable.
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Some provide internet services and television rebroadcasting. Others keep schools open, operate kindy’s and childcare and maintain airports.
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This is often because state or federal governments are no longer providing all of the important services needed, or private operators have left.
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They do this as the level of government least able to afford it.
About the Research
75 per cent of councils responded to the LGAQ cost shifting survey which has provided the first detailed snapshot of the extent of cost shifting in 20 years.