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Reframing the role of Australian mayors: an update and rejoinder to Grant, Dollery and Kortt (2016)

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Recent moves for local government reform in several states of Australia have focused in part on a perceived need for more effective civic leadership, and in particular the role of mayors. Proposed legislation in New South Wales and Victoria would expand the responsibilities of mayors in several areas, such as community engagement, partnerships with key stakeholders, strategic planning and providing guidance to the chief executive officer. In 2012 the Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government (ACELG) published a discussion paper that canvassed these issues as well as the way in which mayors are elected. That paper elicited a strongly adverse critique by Grant, Dollery and Kortt, now published as an article in this issue of Local Government Studies. Regrettably their critique failed to offer a constructive contribution to the debate sought by ACELG, and the article contains a number of significant errors and misleading statements that demand a response.

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  • Graham Sansom, 2016. "Reframing the role of Australian mayors: an update and rejoinder to Grant, Dollery and Kortt (2016)," Local Government Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(6), pages 1047-1059, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:flgsxx:v:42:y:2016:i:6:p:1047-1059
    DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2016.1228564
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