That's the key point in this piece from Kate Emery."Every boundary change or amalgamation the Government proposed is opposed by at least one party, councils told The West Australian yesterday."
But I do wish the media would stop equating boundary change with reform. Boundary change by itself does nothing to 'reform' (dictionary definition: make changes in [something, especially an institution or practice] in order to improve it - my emphasis) local government. In the short-medium term it has precisely the opposite effect as it distracts from the functions of local government, placing emphasis on its form alone.
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