Robert Oakeshott (Lyne, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

I put this motion because local government in Australia is resource deprived, the local road network in Australia is failing—peak engineers groups throughout the country have identified that fact—and the revenue structure to support local government is a problem which needs to be fixed. This motion is just one suggestion to try to start the policy debate. It does not look like the vote is going to go well today, but I hope that we can pretty quickly do something to establish a better revenue flow to local government in Australia, particularly considering the significant failure of the local road network throughout the country.

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