Carrying the can

The Queensland government has been reorganising councils and their businesses for some time now.  Most recently the 10 SEQ councils have given up their water businesses to create three new water utilities.  Prior to that there were a number of Council amalgamations.  Councils apparently believed that the government would underwrite the costs of council amalgamations.  Now it appears that belief was misplaced.  Logan Council (in the south) and Sunshine Coast Council (in the north) are two Councils who have been advised to find the additional costs out of their own budgets.