The Australian Local Government Association and your state/territory local government association have made it simple for your council to participate in the national advocacy campaign to get fairer funding for local government and our communities. http://fairershare.com.au/
We have designed a staged advocacy program that will ensure that our message is heard and understood and lead to action – an increase in funding from the Australian Government to Local Governments.
The first stage of the approach is the lead up to the federal election. We urge you to lend your voice to the sectors call to all federal political parties to provide fairer funding to councils. If we can get enough federal representatives and candidates championing local government funding, we can ultimately get support from the government and get more projects delivered for our communities – unlocking their potential.
Following the Federal election if we do not achieve our objective of getting fairer funding we will move to stage 2 of the campaign and the website will be updated post-election when we know who the new government is.
We encourage you to utilise as many of the tools available as possible. There is a checklist on the website that is a great place to start as it outlines how we are asking you to get involved.
We encourage you to use the key theme – ‘Fairer Funding Unlocks Communities Potential’. This highlights that fairer funding for local governments from the Australian Government will help our communities get more of the valuable facilities and services that allow them to thrive.
Fairer funding is ALGA’s priority election and budget ask. There are others however that you may also like to campaign on. These are outlined on our All Politics are Local campaign website http://allpoliticsislocal.com.au/ and the ALGA website https://alga.com.au/
The more councils and communities that get behind our campaign the more likely we are to succeed.