Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated ActsThe objects of this Act include--
(a) providing a legal framework for an effective, efficient and accountable system of local government; and
(b) recognising a jurisdiction of local government sufficient to allow a local government to take autonomous responsibility for the good rule and government of its area with a minimum of intervention by the State; and
(c) providing for community participation in the local government system; and
(d) defining the role of participants in the local government system; and
(e) establishing an independent process for ongoing review of certain important local government issues.