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| | Options for Governing Australia's Large Metropolitan Areas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Special-purpose or single-function governments, like county councils that have existed in Australia, and the many special-purpose local governments in place in the United States (notably their school districts and other special districts), shall, for present purposes, be considered examples of governance rather than government. |
| | State government health regions and policing districts in Australia's present system, and other similar examples of top-down regionalisation, however, will be considered part of government rather than as forms of sub-central governance, because these subdivisions constitute administrative decentralisation rather than democratic or political decentralisation. |
| | In 1997, the average metropolitan area consisted of 114 local governments: 2 counties, 42 [general purpose] municipalities or towns, and 70 special districts, of which 21 were school districts. |
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