Victoria, Queensland, WA and SA reject the Business Council's push for national council approval report cards, while NSW publishes its league table. Shifman says publishing records 'absolutely needs to happen', but a scoreboard needs rewards and consequences and should cover authority response times, not just development applications.
As I told the Australian Financial Review: “But a scoreboard itself is not enough. There should be rewards for those who perform well and consequences for those that don’t.”
I also said: “It needs to extend to authority response times, any sort of application with council, whether an engineering approval or building permit,”
Australian Financial Review, 14 October 2024 — Read the full article