Congratulations to the Communities Action Alliance for mixing it with the Minister and then getting out there into the media world. The third paragraph of their media release raises some very important and disturbing questions:
1. Why did the Minister initiate local government change proposals without a business case or, at the very least, a clear indication of their costs and benefits?
2. How can the Local Government Advisory Board make a reasonable assessment of amalgamation proposals if the proponent has not provided a business case?
3. How can the Local Government Advisory Board make recommendations on proposals if it does not look at costs and benefits during the assessment process?
These questions are disturbing because the words from the Minister's own lips call into question the legality, as well as the morality, of the Government's whole process.
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