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The Lyons Report and Its Ramification for Australian Local Government

出版	Centre for Local Government, School of Economics, University of New England, 2007
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=k9RIAQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The recent past has seen an intense focus on 'financial sustainability' in Australian local government to the exclusion of other important dimensions of local governance. This restrictive emphasis on finance has been unfortunate since it has ignored important developments in the international literature as best exemplified in the landmark 2007 Lyons Report in the United Kingdom. In this official inquiry, Sir Michael Lyons reiterates the critical significance of local voice and local choice in contemporary local government and develops the concept of 'place-shaping' as epitomising the modern role of local councils. However, British local government enjoys far broader service provision responsibilities than its Australian counterpart. Accordingly, this paper thus seeks to outline the nature of 'place-shaping' as conceived in the Lyons Report and consider its applicability in the much narrower Australian local government milieu.