27 July

The next time some pumped-up ambitious social climbing influencer using social media to promote themselves tells you your local council is incompetent and corrupt, and that's why you have potholes, think about this. Councils across the entire country signed this. Federal grants to local government have been cut more than in half in the past 30 years. 'Untied' grants, as the letter says, meaning grants not just tied to novelty cheques from State politicians trying to promote themselves with idiot projects. That's why Councils are broke. The ALP national conference just endorsed this shift. We shall see.