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New property system part
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…
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Caboolture tops
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…
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AUS-SPEC enters
Standards Australia joins the team By Ross Moody * The move towards uniform national contract specifications takes a gigantic leap forward from 1 July 2003.…
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Standards based GIS
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…
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Mosman’s environmental contract
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…
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Financing the CEC
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…
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Bushland management
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…
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Being a bush friendly
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…
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Learning about
Education has been an essential component of the Lawry Plunkett Reserve Project. Education is a vital part of any long term integrated project because it…
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Introducing Lawry Plunkett
Lawry Plunkett is attractive, a great asset to his community, and right beside Sydney’s most popular harbourside beach. But strangely, very few people know he’s…
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SQIDs doing an
Mosman has 14 Stormwater Quality Improvement Devices (SQIDs) operating in five different catchments removing pollutants from stormwater before it reaches the waters of Sydney Harbour.…
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Little Sirius Cove
Located on the southern side of Mosman in Port Jackson, Little Sirius Cove was named after the ‘Sirius’, a First Fleet supply ship, which was…
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