Despite the severe housing crisis, Sydney councils are spending an inordinate amount of time and energy plotting mergers and demergers they can’t afford.
Blink and you would have missed it, but late last month, a Sydney mayor made a brazen attempt to annex half of his neighbouring council.
That’s all of Bexley, Banksia, Rockdale and Brighton-Le-Sands that would fold into Georges River, plus parts of Riverwood, Narwee and Beverly Hills. The population of Georges River would soar by 50 per cent, to 288,000. Landsberry also pointed out that with local government elections imminent in September, this annexation was really just a “landmine” for the next council to deal with.
The government won’t do that. Earlier this year it passed laws establishing a process for councils that wish to demerge, but limiting financial assistance to $5 million. Still, he says, reuniting the people of Rockdale with their brethren in St George would “right the wrong of the previous government”.
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