111-637: The South Sydney City Council was a local government area covering the inner-eastern and inner-Southern Sydney suburbs of Sydney. It was forcibly merged with the Sydney City Council by the Government of New South Wales in 2004. The council chambers were located in the Erskineville Town Hall , with the administrative offices at Joynton Avenue in Zetland . The administrative offices were relocated to
222-577: A unitary authority , but the Australian Bureau of Statistics refers to the whole of the ACT as an unincorporated area. The ACT Government directorate Transport Canberra & City Services handles responsibilities that are under the purview of local government in other parts of Australia, such as local road maintenance, libraries and waste collection. Many Canberra districts have community organisations called "community councils", but these are not part of
333-631: A Labor MP ' crossing the floor ' in 14 years of government. The Liberal Opposition, led by moderate Barry O'Farrell , saw an opportunity to wound Iemma by denying him the opportunity to build the metro. Together, West, Voltz, the Greens and the Opposition had the numbers to defeat the Government in the upper house in August 2008. On 3 September 2008, Deputy Premier and Transport Minister John Watkins announced he
444-576: A day, five days a week will save a total of $ 3,800 a year;" and ban financial donations from clubs as well as trialing a mandatory cashless gaming card, among many others. In March 2023, the New South Wales Labor Party won the election, however only won a minority government. At the time Minns was appointed leader of the party, the Premier of New South Wales was Liberal Party leader Gladys Berejiklian . However, four months later Berejiklian
555-541: A further review into the party. Michael Lavarch conducted the review after Murnain admitted to the Independent Commission Against Corruption (New South Wales) that she was aware that billionaire property developer Huang Xiangmo made an illegal $ 100,000 donation to NSW Labor in 2016. The Lavarch Review recommended changes to internal governance and oversight mechanisms within NSW Labor including
666-586: A geographic or historical interpretation. The council board members are generally known as councillors , and the head councillor is called the mayor . As of August 2016, there were 547 local councils in Australia. Despite the single tier of local governance in Australia, there are a number of extensive regions with relatively low populations that are not a part of any established LGA. Powers of local governments in these unincorporated areas may be exercised by special-purpose governing bodies established outside of
777-535: A larger workload. The growth of the Regional Organisations of Councils has also been a factor in local government reform in Australia. In 1995, there were 50 such agreements across the country. A 2002 study identified 55 ROCs with the largest involving 18 councils. Local government powers are determined by state governments, and states have primary responsibility for funding and exclusive responsibility for supervision of local councils. Local government
888-507: A lease (to stop unfair evictions);" "ensure the trains are built in New South Wales, creating at least 1,000 jobs;" "establish TAFE manufacturing centres so every year, an extra 1,000 apprentices can be trained in skills like mechanical engineering and electrical fitting for free;" "Tradies and truck drivers using the M5 East and M8 would also have their tolls cut. Those who take two trips
999-599: A massive infrastructure scheme involving South West Rail Link , an inner city motorway network, and the Metro Link network , a system of underground, privately operated, single-deck, automated trains. The government planned to use up to $ 3 billion from the sale of retail electricity to help fund the inner city motorway network, linking the M4 Western Motorway to the CBD and the airport The Electrical Trades Union (ETU)
1110-632: A new South Sydney City Council was created with the pre-1982 areas but also including most of Surry Hills and the eastern side of the City from The Domain to Boundary Road, including Woolloomooloo and Kings Cross , Potts Point and Elizabeth Bay which had not previously been a part of South Sydney. The South Sydney City Council was established on 1 January 1989 under the City of Sydney Act 1988 with nine aldermen (Councillors from 1993) divided across three wards : North, South and East wards. The first election for
1221-403: A shift from 'services to property' towards 'services to people'. Community expectations of local government in Australia have risen in the 21st century partly as a result of wider participation in decision-making and transparent management practices. Recent years have seen some State governments devolving additional powers onto LGAs. In Queensland and Western Australia LGAs have been granted
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#17328518072591332-568: A significant campaign against the dominant right-wing faction, achieving notable successes. This period saw the rise of the "Balmain Basket Weavers," a radical left group that transformed inner-city branches and drove out right-wing MPs. However, the influence of the Socialist Left began to wane with the rise of Anthony Albanese and the Hard Left faction. Albanese, who took over the leadership of
1443-462: A significant reduction in the influence of rank-and-file members and the sidelining of genuine leftist policies. By the 2010s, the Socialist Left faction had largely lost its original left-wing socialist character, becoming a mirror of the Right in organizational methods and often in politics. Under Albanese’s leadership, the faction supported conservative policies and suppressed internal resistance, marking
1554-465: A strong influence on the election of the leader. The leader's position is dependent on the continuing support of the caucus (and party factions) and the leader may be deposed by failing to win a vote of confidence of parliamentary members. By convention, the premier sits in the Legislative Assembly, and is the leader of the party controlling a majority in that house. The party leader also typically
1665-650: Is a member of the Assembly, though this is not a strict party constitutional requirement. Barrie Unsworth , for example, was elected party leader while a member of the Legislative Council. He then transferred to the Assembly by winning a seat at a by-election. When the Labor party wins sufficient seats to be able to control a majority in the Legislative Assembly, the party leader becomes the State Premier and Labor will form
1776-517: Is mentioned in the annotated Australian constitution, as a department of the State Governments, and they are mentioned in the constitutions of each of the six states. Under the Constitution, the federal government cannot provide funding directly to local governments; a 1974 referendum sought to amend the Constitution to authorise the federal government to directly fund local governments, but it
1887-447: Is part of a local government area. Unincorporated areas are often in remote locations, cover vast areas, or have very small populations. Queensland and Tasmania are entirely partitioned into LGAs and have no unincorporated areas. The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) has no municipalities. The ACT government is responsible for both state-level and local-level matters. In some countries, such an arrangement would be referred to as
1998-504: Is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state/territory it belongs to. The functions and practices of local councils are mostly centered around managing public services and land uses at the community level, and are similar throughout Australia, but can vary to some degree between jurisdictions. State departments oversee the activities of local councils and may intervene in their affairs when needed, subject to relevant legislation. For more details in each state and territory, see
2109-585: Is the City of Brisbane , the most populous LGA in the country, which administers a significant part of the Brisbane metropolitan area . In most cases, when a city's population statistics are used, it is the statistical division population rather than the local government area. The following table provides a summary of local government areas by states and territories by local government area types as of December 2023: The Australian Classification of Local Governments (ACLG) categorises local governing authorities using
2220-572: Is the third level of government in Australia , administered with limited autonomy under the states and territories , and in turn beneath the federal government . Local government is not mentioned in the Constitution of Australia , and two referendums in 1974 and 1988 to alter the Constitution relating to local government were unsuccessful. Every state/territory government recognises local government in its own respective constitution . Unlike
2331-736: The 1927 election but won in a landslide at the 1930 election . Lang opposed the Premiers' Plan to combat the Great Depression agreed to by the federal Labor government of James Scullin and the other state Premiers, who called for even more stringent cuts to government spending to balance the budget. In March 1931, the NSW branch of the party was expelled by the Federal Executive in the Federal Conference . In October 1931, Lang's followers in
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#17328518072592442-526: The Australian Labor Party (ALP). The branch is the current ruling party in the state of New South Wales and is led by Chris Minns, who has served concurrently as premier of New South Wales since 2023. The parliamentary leader is elected from and by the members of the party caucus , comprising all party members in the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council . The party factions have
2553-466: The Health Services Union expenses affair . Their membership of NSW Labor was terminated in 2014. Seeking to stamp out perceived corruption and factional infighting, Senator John Faulkner began a process of reforms that proposed to include rank–and–file members in decisions such as the selection of candidates for Senate and Legislative Council vacancies and party tickets , and a vote in
2664-686: The Lang Dismissal Crisis in 1931–32 which led to his dismissal as premier by the State Governor on 13 May 1932. The Governor appointed the UAP leader, Bertram Stevens , as premier and Stevens immediately called the 1932 election , at which Labor was heavily defeated. In February 1936, the NSW branch rejoined the Australian Labor Party and became the official NSW branch of the ALP again. Federal Labor
2775-639: The Local Government Act does not mandate adopting a designation, some local government areas are legally known simply as "council", such as Port Macquarie-Hastings Council , Inner West Council and Federation Council . Some rural areas in South Australia are known as "district council", and all the LGAs in Tasmania that were previously municipalities have been renamed "council". Almost all local councils have
2886-532: The Outback Communities Authority . Victoria has a number of unincorporated areas which are not part of any LGA: Western Australia has two unincorporated areas: New South Wales Labor Party The New South Wales Labor Party , officially known as the Australian Labor Party ( New South Wales Branch ) and commonly referred to simply as NSW Labor , is the New South Wales branch of
2997-703: The Pastoral Unincorporated Area in South Australia . Local governments are subdivisions of the six federated states as well as the Northern Territory . The Australian Capital Territory has no separate local government, and municipal functions in Canberra and the surrounding regions (normally performed by local governments in other states) are performed by the ACT territorial government. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), however, considers
3108-602: The TNT Towers in Redfern in 2001. The forerunner of the City of South Sydney was the Northcott Municipal Council (named after the late Governor Sir John Northcott , who served from 1946 to 1957 as the first Australian Governor of NSW), which was created on 1 January 1968 when the City of Sydney boundaries were changed. Newtown , Darlington , Erskineville , Alexandria , Waterloo and Redfern were combined to form
3219-759: The Top End region, the Northern Territory Rates Act Area and Darwin Waterfront Precinct within Darwin , Nhulunbuy on the Gove Peninsula , Alyangula on Groote Eylandt , and Yulara in Central Australia . In South Australia , 63% of the state's area is unincorporated. Residents in this area – less than 0.2% of the state's population – receive municipal services provided by a state agency,
3330-522: The government . When Labor is the largest party not in government, the party leader becomes the Leader of the Opposition . To become a premier or opposition leader, the party leader must be or within a short period of time become a member of the Legislative Assembly. The NSW branch of the Australian Labor Party, known as the Labor Electoral League of New South Wales from 1891 to 1917, first won 35 of
3441-476: The state election . ABC News stated, following the election, that "Labor's pledge to scrap the Coalition's public-sector wages cap was, in hindsight, instrumental in delivering the party majority government." Since coming into office the party has officially achieved two election commitments: enshrining Sydney Water and Hunter Water as permanent public institutions via a Constitutional amendment ; raising
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3552-475: The "red rules" and returned the power of selecting the party leader to the caucus. Lang was deposed in 1939. William McKell became party leader, reuniting and rejuvenating the party. Under his leadership the extreme left wing of the party had been expelled and had contested the 1941 election as the far left wing State Labor Party . McKell led Labor to a convincing victory and became Premier. State Labor's poor showing had resulted in its dissolution shortly after
3663-475: The 141 seats in the NSW parliament at the 1891 election . The initial caucus voted against appointing a leader and the party was directed by a steering committee of five members until, following a request from the party's extra-parliamentary executive, Joseph Cook was elected as the first leader in 1893. Cook left the party in the following year when he was obliged to sign a pledge that he would support all caucus decisions in parliament. James McGowen , who signed
3774-420: The 2007 election, Iemma and Treasurer Costa secretly plotted their strategy for the next four years, under the heading of "bullets to bite". Both knew that if they were to build the new rapid transit system and address the growing crisis in electricity supply, they would need to bring the private sector into the state's electricity industry first. The federal party's immediate political needs intervened, with
3885-515: The AEC; this occurred in October 2000. The Country Labor designation is most frequently used in New South Wales. According to the ALP's financial statements for the 2015–16 financial year, NSW Country Labor had around 2,600 members (around 17 percent of the party total), but almost no assets. It recorded a severe funding shortfall at the 2015 NSW state election , and had to rely on a $ 1.68 million loan from
3996-583: The Australian labour movement and general community was opposed to conscription, Australian Labor Prime Minister Billy Hughes and Premier Holman strongly supported conscription, and both crossed the floor to vote with the conservative parties, and both were expelled from the Labor Party. When Hughes met with the executive of NSW Labor in September 1916 to attempt to persuade them to back his conscription plan, he lost
4107-405: The City of South Sydney was held on 3 December 1988. In 2002, parts of the City of South Sydney and Leichhardt were proposed to be merged with the City of Sydney. In 2003, Potts Point, Elizabeth Bay, Kings Cross, Darlinghurst , Chippendale , Ultimo and parts of Rushcutters Bay , Camperdown and Darlington were transferred from South Sydney to the City of Sydney. As the financial viability of
4218-462: The Coalition comfortably retained government. Foley resigned in November 2018 in the face of sexual assault allegations, and was succeeded by Michael Daley in the resulting leadership contest . In the 2019 election , the party recorded a small TPP swing in its favour and won two seats, but remained in opposition. On 25 March 2019, Daley announced his intention to step down as leader. Penny Sharpe , who
4329-597: The Great War and the Russian Revolution . At this point it was increasingly beset by internal divisions, in particular between the relatively conservative AWU and smaller unions and radicals such as the syndicalist -influenced Sam Rosa . This came to a head during 1919 due to divisions over whether conscription should end following the closing of the First World War and whether the Australian union movement should adopt
4440-420: The Labor reign in New South Wales winning the 1962 election . Heffron resigned the leadership and premiership in 1964, and was succeeded by Jack Renshaw , who lost the premiership at the 1965 election ending 24 years of Labor power in the state. Renshaw also lost the 1968 election , after which he resigned the leadership, to be succeeded by Pat Hills . Hills lost the 1971 and 1973 election after which he
4551-452: The NSW Labor's State Conference rejected, by 702 to 107 votes, the Iemma government's plans to privatise the state's electricity system. Two members of the party's Socialist Left faction , upper house MPs Lynda Voltz and Ian West , succumbed to the pressure and announced that they would vote against the party on privatisation. Had the vote gone ahead, it would have been the first instance of
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4662-655: The Nationalist government, Holman vigorously defended the government-owned enterprises from the more conservative wing of his party. Durack's leadership lasted only for about three months, and he was succeeded by John Storey in February 1917. In April 1918 the Industrial Section changed its name to the Industrial Vigilance Council, a change in part prompted by a leftward shift in the union movement influenced by
4773-455: The New South Wales branch of the ALP united despite the sectarian and ideological split that resulted in the formation of the right-wing Democratic Labor Party in 1954. He achieved this by controlling the anti-DLP faction in his party. The DLP did not contest the 1956 election , which Labor won. Cahill was returned in the 1959 election , but died in office later that year. He was succeeded as leader and premier by Bob Heffron . Heffron continued
4884-400: The Opposition and right-faction MP for Kogarah Chris Minns , won back the state after 11 years and 362 days in opposition. Minns had been leader of the party since June 2021 after being elected unopposed following the resignation of former leader Jodi McKay . Minns announced his shadow ministry over the following week, with a "focus on working families, Western Sydney and
4995-599: The Socialist Left in the late 1980s, shifted the faction's strategy from grassroots mobilization to transactional politics. This shift involved collaborating with the party's Right faction, thereby consolidating power at the expense of local party democracy. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Albanese’s Hard Left faction worked closely with the Right, using mechanisms like the "N40 rule" and the ALP National Executive’s "plenary powers" to deselect grassroots left-wing candidates and impose centrally selected ones. This led to
5106-469: The agenda for the remainder of the war. In addition, the prospect of putting the economy on a war footing increased fears regarding job losses. These developments increased disillusion with Labor among unions and encouraged thinking about new political strategies. In November 1915 Labor affiliated unions in NSW, led by the AWU, formed the Industrial Section, the first formally organised Labor faction in Australia, with
5217-509: The aim of asserting control over the NSW parliamentary party. At the state party conference in April 1916, the Industrial Section, swept the party's internal elections, taking 31 out of 36 offices including the party's presidency. The Industrial Section became a model for later factional organisations in the ALP, both in New South Wales and nationwide. The conscription issue divided the Labor Party and wider Australian community in 1916. While much of
5328-472: The caucus was challenged in 1926 and in that year the party's annual State Conference, which strongly supported Lang, assumed the right to select the leader instead of caucus. The following year Lang and his extra-parliamentary allies drastically altered the party rules so that State Conference delegates and members of the Central Executive were elected in a complicated group system. The ALP was defeated at
5439-538: The cost-of-living..." Months after becoming leader of the party Minns reiterated his party's plan to invest in Western Sydney after stating at the Labor Party state conference that his party would scrap the Beaches Link and redirect the funds ($ 10 billion) to public transport infrastructure to Greater Western Sydney. He also criticised the privatisation of WestConnex , stating: "Look at the circumstances surrounding
5550-502: The direct election of the New South Wales parliamentary leaders. However, Faulkner's reform proposals were mostly rejected at NSW Labor's 2014 conference. The direct election of party leader gained support with effect from after the 2015 election . Following the suspension of the general secretary of NSW Labor, Kaila Murnain in 2019, the NSW Labor Leader Jodi McKay and federal Labor Leader Anthony Albanese announced
5661-465: The election. During World War II McKell became a close collaborator of Labor Prime Ministers John Curtin and Ben Chifley , being a particularly close friend of the latter. Labor unity was again threatened by Jack Lang who had been expelled from the Labor Party in 1943 and formed another version of the Lang Labor Party. On this occasion he received no support from the rest of the caucus and spent
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#17328518072595772-473: The end of the NSW Labor Party's truly left-wing socialist faction. Bob Carr became leader in 1988 and led Labor to victory in the 1995 election . Carr was premier for 10 years, before resigning in 2005. He was the longest continuous-serving premier in New South Wales. Carr was succeeded by Morris Iemma . At the time, the state transport network was inferior, and public transport was often criticised as
5883-450: The entire ACT as an " unincorporated " local government area, even though it is technically a state-level administrative region . Although all essentially identical in functions and jurisdictions, Australian local governments have a variety of different titles. The term "local government area" (LGA) is used by the ABS to collectively refer to all local government administrative zones regardless of
5994-426: The establishment of a State Executive Board to oversee the existing NSW Labor Administrative Committee. Country Labor was a subsection of the ALP, and was used as a designation by candidates contesting elections in rural areas. It functioned as a sort of ginger group within the party, and was somewhat analogous to its youth wing . The Country Labor Party was registered as a separate party in NSW, until 2021 and
6105-532: The federal House of Representatives crossed the floor to vote with the conservative United Australia Party and bring down the Scullin government. This action split the NSW Labor Party in two – Lang's followers and the expelled NSW branch became known as Lang Labor , while Scullin's supporters, led by Chifley, became known in NSW as Federal Labor . Most of the party's branches and affiliated trade unions supported Lang. Furthermore, Lang's persistence with his plan led to
6216-504: The first half of the 20th century was the provision of physical infrastructure such as roads, bridges and sewerage. From the 1970s the emphasis changed to community facilities such as libraries and parks, maintenance of local roads, town planning and development approvals, and local services such as waste disposal. Child care, tourism and urban renewal were also beginning to be part of local governments' role. These are financed by collection of local land taxes known as "rates", and grants from
6327-448: The first time. Significant reforms took place in the 1980s and 1990s in which state governments used metrics and efficiency analysis developed within the private sector in the local government arena. Each state conducted an inquiry into the benefits of council amalgamations during the 1990s. In the early 1990s, Victoria saw the number of local councils reduced from 210 to 78. South Australia, Tasmania and Queensland saw some reductions in
6438-415: The following: The Australian Capital Territory is not divided into local government areas, so it is regarded as a single "unincorporated" local government area during censusing . Unlike many other countries, Australia has only one level of local government immediately beneath state and territorial governments. Aside from very sparsely populated areas and a few other special cases, almost all of Australia
6549-496: The government (though they generally receive government funding). They do not have the power to change laws or policies, and their role is limited to advising government. They are effectively residents' associations . New South Wales has three unincorporated areas: In the Northern Territory , 1.47% of the total area and 3.0% of the population are in unincorporated areas. These include the Cox-Daly and Marrakai-Douglas Daly areas in
6660-646: The government dismissed the Council of the City of Sydney and replaced it with commissioners who administered the city until 31 December 1988. A special inquiry and subsequent report (the Goran Report) advocated separating the Sydney central business district (CBD) from surrounding suburbs and replacing municipal government in the CBD with a special commission to ensure it was governed as a financial, commercial and tourist centre. In 1989,
6771-399: The holding of the 1911 trade and commerce referendum favoured by the ALP: in addition Holman alienated extra-parliamentary Labor members and some of the NSW caucus by appointing a number of new members to the state's Legislative Council , including some who were not Labor members. This ran counter to the state party's platform, which advocated for the abolition of the Council, something which
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#17328518072596882-444: The local legislation, as with Victoria 's alpine resorts ; or directly administered by state/territory governments, such as the entirety of the Australian Capital Territory . The administrative area covered by local government councils in Australia ranges from as small as 1.5 km (0.58 sq mi) for the Shire of Peppermint Grove in the Perth metropolitan region , to as big as 624,339 km (241,059 sq mi) for
6993-429: The mayor is elected by the board of fellow councillors . The powers of mayors vary as well; for example, mayors in Queensland have broad executive functions, whereas mayors in New South Wales are essentially ceremonial figureheads who can only exercise power at the discretion of the council. Most of the capital city LGAs administer only the central business districts and nearby central suburbs . A notable exception
7104-428: The most stark example of Carr's inaction. Iemma and the Treasurer Michael Costa supported the idea to sidestep the high costs and industrial risks of the existing RailCorp network and instead begin building a new rapid transit rail system in parallel. The new system would incorporate smaller, lighter rolling stock, reducing construction costs, and be operated by the private sector, reducing operating costs. But despite
7215-509: The names of LGAs, and today the stylised titles of " town ", " borough ", " municipality ", " district ", " region ", "community government", " Aboriginal council/shire" and "island" are used in addition. The word "municipality" occurs in some states with differing meanings: in New South Wales it is typically used for older urban areas, and the word is used for some rural towns in South Australia . Larger towns and small metropolitan exurban centres in Queensland and Western Australia simply use
7326-449: The new council. The council was renamed the South Sydney Municipal Council on 1 December 1968, which was itself abolished on 1 January 1982 and all of these areas were returned to the City of Sydney . In the late 1980s, the Government of New South Wales perceived that the Sydney City Council was insufficiently committed to some major infrastructural projects such as the monorail and the redevelopment of Darling Harbour . In March 1987
7437-458: The new federal Labor leader Kevin Rudd persuading Iemma to defer his privatisation announcement until after the 2007 federal election . Rudd felt he could ill afford the distraction of a debate over asset sales in the country's most populous state. With the funding source a secret, the rapid transit plan had to be kept under wraps as well. Along with his plan to sell the government's electricity generation and retailing companies, Iemma announced
7548-439: The new vacancies to secure selection for open seats. Early in 1917, Holman and his supporters merged with Liberal Reform to form the state branch of the Nationalist Party of Australia . While the merged party was dominated by former Liberals, Holman became its leader. At the 1917 state election, the Nationalists won a huge victory, presaging the equally massive federal Nationalist victory later that year. During his leadership of
7659-649: The number of local governments while Western Australia and New South Wales rejected compulsory mergers. New South Wales eventually forced the merging of some councils. The main purpose of amalgamating councils was for greater efficiency and to improve operations, but forced amalgamation of councils is sometimes seen as a dilution of representative democracy . An increase in the range of services offered by councils, but only minor cost savings of less than 10% have been noted by academics as outcomes after mergers. The council mergers have resulted in widespread job losses and lingering resentment from some whose roles have experienced
7770-427: The part of local governments. There is no mention of local government in the Constitution of Australia , though it is mentioned several times in the Annotated Constitution of Australia. "Municipal institutions and local government" appears in Annotation 447, and "Power of the Parliament of a Colony" appears under "Residuary Legislative Powers" on pages 935 and 936. The first official local government in Australia
7881-409: The party and premier. His government was defeated on the floor of the House on 13 December 1921, but new Premier George Fuller lost a vote within seven hours of his appointment, and Dooley regained power. He lost the 1922 election to Fuller in a highly sectarian election campaign. As the result of a dispute with a party executive, dominated by the Australian Workers' Union , Dooley was expelled from
7992-419: The party in February 1923 and replaced by Greg McGirr as leader, but the Federal Executive intervened and appointed Bill Dunn as an interim leader until Jack Lang was elected by the caucus, with the support of more radical unions, most prominently Albert Willis and his Australian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation . Lang led the ALP to victory in the 1925 election and became Premier. His support in
8103-502: The party proper to remain solvent. It had been initially assumed that the party proper could provide the money from its own resources, but the NSW Electoral Commission ruled that this was impermissible because the parties were registered separately. Instead the party proper had to loan Country Labor the required funds at a commercial interest rate. The dedicated Country Labor political party was de-registered in October 2021 in
8214-411: The party remained opposed to the adopted Constitution, which it saw as biased in favour of business interests. The 1904 state election saw Labor become the second largest party and the official opposition for the first time. At the 1910 election, the Labor Party first won government in NSW with a slim majority of 46 of 90 seats; as a result, McGowen was premier from 1910 to 1913. But increasing success
8325-707: The party's notional commitment to democratic socialism . Next, union and party officials began threatening Labor MPs with disendorsement if they voted with the Premier on privatisation. Remembering the promise Rudd had made to him in 2007, Iemma called on the Prime Minister to have the federal party intervene to protect MPs who sided with the Government. Rudd declined. Former Prime Minister Paul Keating , former premiers Carr, Barrie Unsworth and Neville Wran , and former Labor Council secretaries Michael Easson and John McBean came out publicly in support of Iemma. On 3 May 2008,
8436-453: The pledge, succeeded Cook as party leader in 1894. At the 1894 state election Labor representation was reduced to 18. After the 1898 election , Labor held the balance of power with George Reid 's Free Trade government being dependent on Labor to push through New South Wales' adoption of Federation . McGowen's support for Federation was critical to Labor maintaining its support for the adoption of measures to implement Federation, even though
8547-865: The population, the population density and the proportion of the population that is classified as being urban for the council. The classification, at the two-digit level, is: All local governments are approximately equal in their theoretical powers, although LGAs that encompass large cities such as Brisbane and the Gold Coast command more resources due to their larger population base. Unlike local governments in many other countries, services such as police, fire protection and schools are provided by respective state or territory governments rather than by local councils. However, local governments still maintain some responsibility for fire service functions within Queensland and Western Australia. The councils' chief responsibility in
8658-414: The power to independently enact their own local subsidiary legislation , in contrast to the previous system of by-laws . Councils also have organised their own representative structures such as Local Government Associations and Regional Organisations of Councils . Doctrines of New Public Management have shaped state government legislation towards increased freedoms aiming to allow greater flexibility on
8769-605: The privatisation of WestConnex... just one road as part of the WestConnex network will make $ 28 billion from the pockets of the families of western Sydney". By the time of the 2023 state election, the party had a myriad of key election promises, including: scrapping the public-sector wages cap; "Improve conditions for tenants by establishing a Rental Commissioner to advocate for renters, allowing renters to directly transfer bonds from one property to another, outlawing secret rental bidding, and listing reasonable grounds for owners to end
8880-402: The projects the state needed if it was to avoid choking on its own congestion within the next decade. It amounted to more than $ 25 billion. And that was what they hadn't even announced. "This is why I am the Premier," he told Riordan, emphasising his belief that it was critical for the privatisation to succeed. "These [projects] need to be done. I need to do these." Immediately following
8991-405: The public was against a sale and – more importantly – tiring of Iemma and his team. They too came down against Iemma's plan. What followed was an extraordinary, year-long struggle by the party's head office and affiliated trade unions to force cabinet and caucus to abandon an already-announced policy. Robertson, Bitar and Foley had the union-dominated party conference pass a motion reminding MPs of
9102-526: The purpose of raising money to build roads in rural and outer-urban regions. Council representatives attended conventions before Federation , however local government was unquestionably regarded as outside the Constitutional realm. In the 1970s, the Whitlam government expanded the level of funding to local governments in Australia beyond grants for road construction. General purpose grants become available for
9213-445: The residual City of South Sydney was under threat as a result, the City of Sydney and the City of South Sydney were combined by proclamation on 6 February 2004. The 2003 merger was perceived as an attempt to bring more working class Labor Party voters into the City of Sydney. South Sydney City Council was composed of three wards , each electing three councillors each. The position of mayor was elected by councillors. The final election
9324-400: The rest of the term as the sole member. At the 1944 election McKell won another victory, the first time a New South Wales Labor government had been re-elected. On early 1947 he resigned and announced acceptance of appointment as Governor General . James McGirr was elected leader and premier and led Labor to another victory at the 1947 election . McGirr nearly lost the 1950 election and
9435-408: The same administrative functions and similar political structures, regardless of their naming, and retain a particular designation ("shire", "borough", "town", "city") for historical reasons only. They will typically have an elected council and usually a mayor or shire president responsible for chairing meetings of the council. In some councils, the mayor is a directly elected figure, but in most cases
9546-453: The savings available via the rapid transit option, the costs were still beyond the state's means. Iemma comfortably won the 2007 election with the loss of only four seats. His strategy was to draw a line under the failures of the Carr era and ask the electorate for another chance. The Opposition ran a poor campaign, and the electorate was minded to trust the affable, hard-working new premier. Iemma
9657-472: The stamp duty exemption threshold for first-home buyers from $ 650k to $ 800k. Between 2009 and 2014, the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) began or completed a series of investigations into the behaviours of a number of Labor politicians, including Angela D'Amore , Tony Kelly , Ian Macdonald , Eddie Obeid , Karyn Paluzzano , and Joe Tripodi . The ICAC made a series of adverse findings against all six politicians, although Paluzzano
9768-493: The state and Commonwealth governments. They are caricatured as being concerned only with the "three Rs": Rates, Roads and Rubbish. However, the roles of local government areas in Australia have recently expanded as higher levels of government have devolved activities to the third tier. Examples include the provision of community health services, regional airports and pollution control as well as community safety and accessible transport. The changes in services has been described as
9879-445: The support of MPs and would not survive a caucus meeting. Nathan Rees also walked into the meeting with a number of Labor MPs announcing he had the numbers to overthrow Iemma. Seeing that he had lost the support of his caucus faction, Iemma resigned as leader and Premier. He was replaced by Rees as leader and Premier. Rees was leader and premier for only 15 months before he was deposed by Kristina Keneally , who resigned after Labor
9990-653: The syndicalist principle of the One Big Union . The faction was wound up in August 1919, with many of its radicals such as Albert Willis going on to form the Industrial Socialist Labor Party . This left the state party firmly in the control of the AWU At the 1920 election, Holman and his Nationalists were thrown from office in a massive swing to Labor. Storey became premier with a majority of one. On Storey's death in October 1921, James Dooley became leader of
10101-606: The term "town", while in Victoria they are designated as "rural city". Historically, the word "borough" was common for small towns and suburban centers in Victoria, but nowadays only the Borough of Queenscliffe remains as the one and only borough in the entire country. New South Wales and Queensland have also introduced a new term "region" for outback LGAs formed by the amalgamation of smaller shires and rural cities. In New South Wales, where
10212-470: The time, presented a policy agenda at state party conferences which differed from that approved by the federal party, in particular in its opposition to the transfer of responsibilities for finance and industrial relations from the state to the Commonwealth government, a dispute in which the AWU sided with the ALP. Tensions continued to rise during McGowen's premiership, as McGowen and Holman refused to support
10323-745: The two-tier local government system in Canada or the United States , there is only one tier of local government in each Australian state/territory, with no distinction between counties and cities . The Australian local government is generally run by a council , and its territory of public administration is referred to generically by the Australian Bureau of Statistics as the local government area or LGA , each of which encompasses multiple suburbs or localities (roughly equivalent to neighborhoods) often of different postcodes ; however, stylised terms such as "city", " borough ", " region " and " shire " also have
10434-548: The varying designations, whilst the local governing legislature itself is generally known as a council . In general, an urban / suburban LGA is called a " city ", as in the City of Melbourne , City of Canada Bay and City of Bunbury ; while an exurban / rural LGA covering a larger agricultural / natural area is usually called a " shire ", as in Shire of Mornington Peninsula , Shire of Banana and Lachlan Shire . Sometimes designations other than "city" or "shire" are used in
10545-404: The vote 21–5 and was warned that he would be expelled if he continued to press the matter. Ernest Durack became state party leader, while Holman formed a coalition on 15 November 1916 with the leader of the opposition Liberal Reform Party , Charles Wade , with himself as Premier. Following the exodus of pro-conscription MPs from the party, many leaders of the Industrial Section took advantage of
10656-500: Was accompanied by increasing tensions within the labour movement: from the 1890s the Australian Workers' Union attempted to assert its influence on the NSW parliamentary party, with little success for many years. Divisions also opened up between state and federal Labor after Andrew Fisher took office as Prime Minister of the first federal Labor government in 1908: William Holman , the NSW party's main parliamentary strategist at
10767-522: Was also registered with the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) for federal elections. The creation of a separate designation for rural candidates was first suggested at the June 1999 ALP state conference in NSW. In May 2000, following Labor's success at the 2000 Benalla by-election in Victoria, Kim Beazley announced that the ALP intended to register a separate "Country Labor Party" with
10878-468: Was defeated in a landslide at the 2011 election . Keneally was succeeded by John Robertson . He resigned in December 2014, after the 2014 Sydney hostage crisis , after it was revealed that he had had contact with Man Haron Monis , who was one of Robertson's constituents. On 5 January 2015 Luke Foley was elected leader. In the 2015 state election , Labor achieved a 9.9-point two-party-preferred swing, but
10989-539: Was defeated. A 1988 referendum sought to explicitly insert mention of local government in the federal constitution but this was comprehensively defeated. A further referendum was proposed in 2013 , but was cancelled due to the change in the election date . Federal government interaction with local councils happens regularly through the provision of federal grants to help fund local government managed projects. Local government in Australia has very limited legislative powers and no judicial powers , and executive -wise
11100-527: Was deposed by Neville Wran . Wran narrowly won the 1976 election and remained premier until 1986, winning two Landslide victory 's popularly known as the "Wranslide." In 1978 election and 1981 election . He was succeeded by Barrie Unsworth who took over the premiership until Labor's loss at the 1988 election , after which he resigned. In the 1980s, the NSW Labor Party’s Socialist Left faction, led by figures like Peter Baldwin, waged
11211-428: Was elected deputy leader in November 2018, served as interim leader until the leadership ballot was held in June; Jodi McKay was elected leader. In May 2021, McKay resigned the leadership, and was replaced by Chris Minns on 4 June 2021. After going through five leaders since the 2011 state election , which included four leadership elections ( 2015 , 2018 , 2019 , 2021 ), New South Wales Labor, led by Leader of
11322-577: Was going to retire for family reasons, triggering a cabinet reshuffle. On 4 September 2008, Costa was advised by Iemma that he would no longer be in the forthcoming reshuffle and hence dumped as Treasurer. Iemma had also proposed that other ministers would be dumped, including Health Minister Reba Meagher . Iemma's faction, Centre Unity, supported the sacking of the Treasurer but not the other four Ministers. The following day, right-wing Labor powerbrokers Eddie Obeid and Joe Tripodi told Iemma that he had lost
11433-694: Was held on 1 July 2000 , and the makeup of the council following the election was as follows: On 11 April 2003, South Ward councillor Peter Furness left the Australian Democrats to join the Labor Party . Furness was the first member of the Democrats elected to South Sydney City Council, and it was his vote that prevented Labor from holding the mayoralty from 2000 until 2002. The final council, as of April 2003, was: Local government in Australia [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Local government
11544-537: Was ideologically opposed to the privatisation of the electricity businesses and led opposition to the plan. The ETU's secretary, Bernie Riordan, was also the president of NSW Labor. The secretary of the Unions NSW , John Robertson , was also a member of the ETU and opposed the privatisation. The party secretary, Karl Bitar , and his deputy, Luke Foley , were less ideologically committed on the issue, but their polling showed that
11655-420: Was not attempted by the state Labor governments of the 1910s, and which was a divisive issue in the party at the time. McGowen was deposed by his deputy Holman after McGowen attempted to break a gas workers' strike by threatening to replace strikers with non-union labour. Upon the outbreak of World War I , Holman announced a truce with the state Commonwealth Liberal Party which would take industrial reform off
11766-453: Was replaced by Dominic Perrottet . Initially opinion polls remained fairly steady, with the Liberal – National Coalition government losing one to two points. By September 2022 ( 1 year, 106 days after Minns became party leader) the party took the lead in the primary vote polls for the first time in over a decade, and maintained the two-party-preferred opinion poll consistently until
11877-473: Was replaced in 1952 by Joseph Cahill . In August 1953, two Fairfield aldermen − including a former mayor − split from ALP to form the Official Labour Movement . Although it won two seats at the local government elections in December 1953 , it failed to defeat the ALP at state or federal elections and faded away soon after. Cahill decisively won the 1953 election . He was desperate to keep
11988-423: Was returned but with far less political capital than the size of Labor's majority would suggest. This is why I am the Premier. Journalist Simon Benson describes a crucial meeting in late 2007 between Iemma and Labor state president Bernie Riordan during the height of the furore over electricity privatisation: [Iemma] had laid out on his desk a spreadsheet of infrastructure projects … On the bottom half were all
12099-550: Was the Perth Town Trust , established in 1838, only three years after British settlement. The Adelaide Corporation followed, created by the province of South Australia in October 1840. The City of Melbourne and the Sydney Corporation followed, both in 1842. All of these early forms failed; it was not until the 1860s and 1870s that the various colonies established widespread stable forms of local government, mainly for
12210-505: Was the only one to face criminal charges. For bringing the party into disrepute, Kelly had his membership of Labor terminated in 2011; both Macdonald and Obeid had their membership terminated in 2013; and Tripodi suffered the same fate in 2014. Other investigations and criminal charges were laid against Craig Thomson , a federal politician from New South Wales, and Michael Williamson , a senior Labor official, also from New South Wales. Both Thomson and Williamson were adversely implicated in
12321-529: Was then abolished. Lang's lack of success at state elections eroded his support within the labour movement. He had not won a state election since 1930. This led some members of caucus, including Bob Heffron , to break away to form the Industrial Labor Party . In 1939, following intervention by the Federal Executive, the two factions were reunited at a state conference. This gathering also reversed
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