Merger challenge: start from the beginning, say councils
The state government would need to rerun a public process to gauge community attitudes following court rulings that found flaws in previous analyses, affected councils say.
Jacob Saulwick is City Editor at The Sydney Morning Herald.
The state government would need to rerun a public process to gauge community attitudes following court rulings that found flaws in previous analyses, affected councils say.
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