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The local government sector is pushing to change an “outdated” state law that sees Adelaide ratepayers pay Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation millions of dollars in compulsory advertising, in a new blow to the media company’s ailing suburban newspaper stable.
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Calls for an Adelaide City Council four-year rates freeze have been knocked back, after one councillor warned it could lead to “Edward Scissorhands” cuts to services.
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Labor leader Peter Malinauskas could be forced to call a special party convention if the Opposition opts to change its position on rate-capping, as unions pledge to step up protests against the measure in coming weeks.
The Adelaide City Council has dramatically upped its pitch to attract new residents to the CBD, offering a five-year rates holiday to some new homebuyers.
The Adelaide City Council will tonight debate an independent financial report that advocates scrapping the rates rebate it provides to pensioners.
The feud between the Local Government Association and the Property Council over council amalgamations has taken an aggressive turn, with the peak bodies lashing out at each other in an extraordinary fashion.
Rate capping is not the way to get councils to better manage your money, writes Labor MP Chris Picton in response to yesterday’s Off the Bench opinion article by Liberal MP Stephan Knoll.
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