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Tasmania’s local government system needs to ensure fair representation and adequate pay for councillors while keeping costs manageable for communities. Having the ‘right’ number of councillors in a local government area is critical to ensuring effective and efficient governance, representation, and service delivery. There is also a natural relationship between levels of representation and appropriate pay, reflecting the individual circumstances of a council, such as population size, geographic spread, asset value, and development activity.
That is why the Tasmanian Government has released a discussion paper, proposing a new, fair, and data-driven system to set councillor numbers and allowances, using factors like population, development activity, infrastructure, urbanisation, and road networks. Key changes include:
The discussion paper can be found here:
We want to hear from you to ensure these reforms meet community needs. Please share your views by 7 November 2025:
Key questions include:
Your input will shape a stronger, fairer, and more effective local government system for Tasmania.
In the absence of clear information that a submission is to be treated as confidential, submissions will be treated as public information and published on the Department of Premier and Cabinet’s website. If you would like your submission to be treated as confidential, you must indicate in writing, at the time of providing your submission, the parts of your submission you wish to remain confidential and provide the reasons for this.
Please consult the Tasmanian Government’s Public Submission Policy for further information.
Submissions will be published after consideration by Government.
No personal information other than an individual’s name or the organisation making a submission will be published.