The State Government's forced amalgamation of Queensland local authorities looks like costing the best part of $200 million, many times the $27 million the state set aside for the exercise. The very reasonable argument for amalgamation was that it would make councils more financially secure. But regardless of any longer term benefits, the massive cost blowout of the exercise tells us one of two things; either the state was cynically misleading us from the beginning, or it was simply incompetent in calculating its cost/benefit equation.
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