History
The first official Local Government in Australia was the Adelaide Corporation which was created by the province of South Australia in October 1840. The City of Melbourne followed in 1842. All of these early forms failed; it was not until the 1860s and 1870s that the various colonies established widespread stable forms of local government, mainly for the purpose of raising money to build roads in rural and outer-urban regions. Significant reforms took place in the 1980s and 1990s in which state governments brought in notions of metrics and efficiency developed within the private sector to the local government arena; as a result, major amalgamation programmes in Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania took place, while minor regional initiatives were deployed in parts of Queensland and New South Wales.
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