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In token community consultation sessions, all but a handful of residents opposed the amalgamation of their local councils but the state government went ahead and disbanded their elected councils and forcibly merged them under an appointed administrator.
The result is a far less representative mega council, a decline in community services and a drive to outsource or privatise services and council buildings. Council workers have been made redundant and recently workers in the privately-managed council swimming pools have been stood down amid the latest COVID-19 lockdown.
On top of this, residents are facing higher rates through a “rates harmonisation” imposed by the NSW government.
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CFMEU Manufacturing
The unions representing forestry and timber workers in NSW are calling on the Berejiklian-Barilaro Government to take urgent action to alleviate the crippling national timber shortage.
The unions want the establishment of a NSW Forest Industry Advisory Council to ensure better management and planning of the State’s timber resources in the wake of the 2019/20 bushfires and impacts of COVID-19 on global supply chains.
The CFMEU Manufacturing Division and the Australian Workers Union have made a joint submission to a NSW Parliamentary Inquiry recommending the new body, which the union wants to focus on reducing the State’s dependence on imported timber.