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Central Coast Friends of Democracy and The Point ESG News Site will present a state-wide webinar at 7pm on Wednesday, 15 November to discuss what lies ahead for the councils that were forcibly merged in 2016.
Special guest speaker will be Dr. Amanda Cohn, Greens MLC, who is currently proposing amendments to the NSW Local Government Act that would provide a pathway for residents wishing to demerge their councils to be able to hold a plebiscite and then move forward with a demerger if the majority voted that way.
Concerted and successful campaigns by residents in Sydney’s Inner West, Canterbury-Bankstown and Cootamundra-Gundagai local government areas to demerge have been thwarted by the former NSW Coalition Government and the Minns Labor Government.
Other speakers will include Brian Halstead, long-term local government campaigner and representative of the Demerge NSW Alliance and representatives from Canterbury-Bankstown and Cootamundra Gundagai’s Council in Exile.
With less than a year until NSW goes to the polls in the September 2024 local government elections, this webinar will highlight the ongoing failures of the 2016 mergers to deliver effective local democracy.
It will also examine solutions, including the pathway for demergers.
To express interest in attending the webinar, register your interest here
