The politically explosive issue of council amalgamations is set to be revisited by the NSW government just months before next year's state election after fresh figures revealed the deteriorating ...

A wave of further legal action against amalgamations seems likely after two councils voted to take cases if the government proceeded with mergers, and another two were due to vote Tuesday night.

The number of local councils in Queensland will be cut in half. After three months of work, the Local Government Reform Commission (LCRM) has today unveiled the details of its dramatic overhaul ...

THE man looking after the interests of Tasmanian councils has warned that amalgamations will not proceed unless the State Government is prepared to put millions of dollars on the negotiating table.

Today is the second anniversary of Queensland's controversial council amalgamations. In March 2007, the State Government reduced the number of regional councils from 156 to 72. The Local ...

"While amalgamations do gain economies of scale and economies of scope they don't necessarily change the underlying functions," he said.

Amalgamations are most common in areas where growth is hard: scattered rural populations, outer estates, inner-city areas. Single-church units under one leader are most common in areas where growth ...

Apte Amalgamations in its meeting dated July 22, 2013 has considered changing the name of Company from Apte Amalgamations to Emerald Leisures, subject to ratification of the same at the forth ...