Have Your Say

Newcastle Herald readers have their say: A council is there to serve its ratepayers

By Letters to the Editor
Updated April 14 2021 - 11:31pm, first published October 27 2020 - 6:00am
Council's 'dubious accounting' and 'magic tricks'
Council's 'dubious accounting' and 'magic tricks'

USING dubious accounting, the City of Newcastle is attempting to report more favourably to ratepayers. By reclassifying infrastructure spending according to "best practice", it has, at the stroke of a pen, wiped $101m from its expenses bill ('Accounting changes need an explanation', Herald, 24/10).

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