Each year our Member Councils collaborate to develop shared regional motions for the National General Assembly of Local Government held in Canberra. This work seeks to:
- Amplify the shared advocacy priorities of the Hunter’s councils on the national stage.
- Emphasise to the Federal Government the strength of alignment across our councils regarding our region’s challenges, opportunities and agreed strategic directions.
This year’s Hunter regional motions are seeking assistance from the Federal Government to:
- Support Local Government efforts to identify future post mining land-use and economic diversification opportunities and to accelerate industry attraction, skills development and job creation.
- Update federal road funding programs so they properly account for regional realities such as longer road networks, heavier freight use, higher weather vulnerability and the capacity of councils to pay
- Lead systems reform of federal government grant funding programs to provide greater funding certainty and reduce administrative imposts on local councils.
- Amend disaster recovery funding rules to include repairs to critical council owned water and sewer infrastructure.
- Establish a non-competitive resilience and betterment funding framework that allows resilience upgrades during the emergency works phase of recovery.