local government

Mr Swana believes the coalition government as a whole "is a marketing platform" for all parties, which are using it to campaign ahead of next year's local government elections.

Over roughly the past two decades, Musk and his companies have received at least $38 billion in public funding from federal, state, and local governments, according to a Washington Post analysis from earlier this year.

It will hear evidence from bereaved relatives, disabled people, care worker associations and organisations representing care providers, as well as trade unions and local government.

Indebted local governments have done this before to earn revenue through fines, sometimes forcing a warning from the central government.

And the state Riley Act, also passed in 1933, required California local governments to establish a building department and inspect new construction.