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Queensland’s Boonah Shire Council has 536 kilometres of dirt roads that are used by school buses, agricultural machinery, cars and trucks. The Shire is hilly,…

Maroochy Shire is an ecologically rich and rapidly developing part of south east Queensland. To protect this precious environment, Council’s Shire-wide vegetation mapping project has…

The City of Cockburn in Western Australia has won the 2003 Government Technology Productivity Gold Award for its GIS and Web Mapping project. Manager of…

Nobbys Beach – one of the Hunter region’s most highly valued social, heritage, cultural and tourism icons – is also one of only a few…

The City of Charles Sturt has recently launched its new land and property information system, Proclaim One, making it the first Council in South Australia…

Caboolture Shire has received the prestigious honour of publishing the top annual report for Queensland Local Government. The Queensland branch of the Institute of Internal…

Standards Australia joins the team By Ross Moody * The move towards uniform national contract specifications takes a gigantic leap forward from 1 July 2003.…

Councils and Water Authorities in NSW and Victoria are turning to Open Spatial for standards based Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to better manage their spatial…

The Community Environmental Contract, or CEC as it’s better known in Mosman, is an extensive works program to regenerate bushland, improve stormwater quality, rehabilitate creeks…

The CEC is funded from a rate levy of five per cent over 12 years. Council’s success in gaining grant funding has ensured that the…

The Mosman peninsula contains some 143 hectares of bushland. Mosman Council controls about 39 hectares, Sydney Harbour National Park covers around 88 hectares and the…

Mosman residents fully understand how lucky they are to share the shores of Sydney Harbour and precious areas of urban bushland. These are valuable natural…