Matt Burnell (Spence, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Last week saw the Australian Local Government Authority National General Assembly come to the nation's capital. With more than 500 councils coming here, I thought there were some interesting facts that came out of that. LGAs employ more than 190,000 workers across more than 400 diverse occupations. This represents nearly 10 per cent of the public sector workforce in Australia. I want to thank the Town of Gawler's mayor, Karen Redman, and CEO, Henry Inat, and also City of Playford's mayor, Glenn Docherty, and Councillors Misty Norris and Gay Smallwood-Smith for dropping past and saying hello whilst here.

In my electorate of Spence, we know that it's through close relationships between federal, state and local governments that we're able to deliver better outcomes for our communities. Everyone knows that in my electorate right now we're going through some significant growing pains, with a rapidly expanding population, and there is an extreme need for collaboration between all three tiers of government to deliver the services that are required by the people in our community. I look forward to working more closely with all of the councils in my electorate over the coming months and years, and thank you very much for your visit and your time last week.