How We Are Governed - Local Government Australia has three systems of government, each of which is comprised of politicians who are elected by the community to represent their opinions. Federal, which controls Australia, state, which controls its respective state or territory, and local, which controls its suburb or in some cases, multiple suburbs. In this essay I will explain how our local government system works. Local governments are comprised of local councils. Councils are …showed first 75 words of 680 total…

…showed last 75 words of 680 total…introduced in South Australia in the 1850's. During the 90's amalgamations of many councils resulted in considerable reduction of the numbers of local government councils eg. Port Adelaide-Enfield. These amalgamations are in continual review to ensure effective and efficient management procedures are implemented, for the benefit of the communities. Local government through consultation procedures and auditing by appropriate state authorities has proved of great benefit to the various communities throughout this state of South Australia.