The Constitution Alteration (Local Government) Bill 1988,[1] was an unsuccessful proposal to alter the Australian Constitution to require that the states maintain a system of democratically elected local government.

The amendment would have prevented states from abolishing their local governments or removing elections for them entirely if they so chose to do.

The failure of this did not make local government unconstitutional, state parliaments are still free to establish systems of local governments through legislation under section 107 of the Federal Constitution.

A Proposed Law: To alter the Constitution to recognise local government.

The proposal was to add a new provision to the Constitution as follows :[4] This was the second unsuccessful referendum on the subject of Local Government.