Federal funding is vital to the livability of every Australian community
It helps your council provide open spaces for sport and recreation, libraries and community centres for local connection, swimming pools for hot days, while maintaining your local roads, footpaths and cycleways.
But over the past 30 years, federal funding to councils through Financial Assistance Grants has halved as a share of our national taxation.
This funding slide is a threat to the local services and facilities we all use every day.
It means less money stays in your local community.
It means you pay more in rates.
It’s time to reverse the slide.
More funding for local government means a fairer share for your local area.
So this coming federal election, support better funding that ‘puts our communities first’.
#putourcommunitiesfirst