Inner West council

A resident-initiated meeting drew good numbers to discuss the case to de-amalgamate the Inner West Council, reports Markela Panegyres.

The NSW government, not local government,聽must be forced to聽remediate a聽community park near the largest traffic interchange in the southern hemisphere, argues聽Pip Hinman.

Labor councillors'聽attempts to stop a residents' poll on de-amalgamation from proceeding at the local government elections in September has been thwarted, writes聽Pip Hinman.

Labor councillors are trying to overturn an Inner West Council decision to conduct a referendum of residents on de-amalgamation at the聽next聽local government election. Pip Hinman reports.

Bicycle ride against the forced council amalgamations

The campaign for the de-amalgamation of three Inner West councils is gaining traction in the lead-up to council elections on September 4, writes Peter Boyle.

People Before Profit team

Residents concerned about the Inner West Council鈥檚 pending rate rise 鈥 the result of the forced amalgamations of three councils 鈥 organised a bicycle ride protest, reports Peter Boyle.

The forced amalgamation of Marrickville, Ashfield and Leichhardt Councils into the Inner West Council has been an expensive failure, and impending big rate rises for many residents prove this, writes Pip Hinman.

Inner West Council has become the first local government in New South Wales to adopt a motion in solidarity with Kurdish mayors who have been removed from office by the Turkish state, reports Peter Boyle.

Inner West Council has joined First Nations communities in opposing Origin's fracking plans in the NT, reports Pip Hinman.

Three years after the New South Wales government forcibly merged 44 metropolitan, regional and country councils into 20 mega councils, the promised savings have failed to materialise.

In some sort of sick joke, residents of the inner west suburbs of St Peters and Haberfield have been sent earplugs by WestConnex after complaints to it about the incessant and loud noise caused by the construction of this controversial $17 billion tollway.

An extraordinary Inner West Council meeting called by Greens councillors on October 3 to discuss supporting residents鈥 groups鈥 campaign against the WestConnex tollway project resulted in very little.

The Labor Mayor Darcy Byrne dominated the five-hour meeting, filibustering to prevent four motions from being discussed. Byrne, who regularly proclaims that 鈥渄emocracy has been restored to council鈥, insisted that his motions in the form of two 鈥淢ayoral minutes鈥, which had not been circulated, take centre stage.