Albanese invites local government to one annual Cabinet meeting with association ‘working towards’ full membership
Image: President of the Australian Local Government Association Linda Scott and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at Parliament House. Photo: Facebook.
By AMBER GRIFFIN
The Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) has been granted an appointment at the National Cabinet at a conference this week by Labor government, after a long history of lobbying for representation.
The appointment of Local Government to the National Cabinet was just one of Prime Minster Anthony Albanese’s pre-election promises, however the ALGA has only been invited to one meeting per year out of the four times the cabinet meets annually.
City of Sydney Councillor and ALGA President Linda Scott established that the ALGA will not consider Labor’s commitment to have been delivered until ALGA is a full voting member at all national cabinet meetings.
“Inviting local government to attend National Cabinet and the Council on Federal Financial Relations annually is a good start, but we will be working towards securing full and ongoing membership” Cr Scott said.
@ClrLindaScott gives the closing statement for this year’s #NGA22 pic.twitter.com/lbO8PzCi6v
— ALGA (@ALGAcomms) June 22, 2022