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Merger Melancholia: An Empirical Analysis of the Perceptions of the Residents of the Forcibly Amalgamated Manilla Shire Council

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  • Andrea Wallace
  • Brian Dollery

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Notwithstanding cogent reasons for the continued existence of small local authorities in the sparsely populated Australian hinterland, compulsory council consolidation has been a recurring theme throughout the history of Australian local government. Despite its ubiquity, especially in rural, regional and remote Australian communities, its local consequences have not yet been fully examined by scholars or policy makers. The present paper seeks to remedy this neglect with an exploratory study of the social and economic consequences of forced local government amalgamations through the lens of the ‘lived experience’ of the small rural community of Manilla, which was forced in merge with the much larger Tamworth in 2004.

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  • Andrea Wallace & Brian Dollery, 2019. "Merger Melancholia: An Empirical Analysis of the Perceptions of the Residents of the Forcibly Amalgamated Manilla Shire Council," International Journal of Public Administration, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(11), pages 940-949, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:lpadxx:v:42:y:2019:i:11:p:940-949
    DOI: 10.1080/01900692.2018.1560317
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