Almost any business in Australia can relate to the difficulty of the country’s low unemployment rates, but how does a community’s cogs keep turning when local councils can’t find the numbers.
Increasingly high vacancies aren’t new for most councils in the Western Plains, but the need to keep delivering services is getting more and more difficult to sustain over time.
“What’s happening is the directors are getting overwhelmed and tired because they’ve still got to get the work out,” Lachlan Shire Council Mayor Paul Phillips said.
“How long can we keep it up? That’s the million dollar question.”…