News
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Climate change in action *
Extreme weather events around the nation have plagued the traditional Christmas/New Year festive season. Icy winds, hail and an offshore wind twister met the Sydney…
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Lismore’s 100 million worms turning
Opened last October, Lismore’s organic waste reprocessing facility, containing 100 million worms in a 120 metre long automated greenhouse, is believed to be the largest…
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Volunteers play a big part
Western Australia’s Eastern Metropolitan Regional Council (EMRC) won this year’s Premiers Awards for Excellence in Public Sector Management, in the ‘Sustainable Environment’ category for their…
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Brisbane hosts national
In December last year, Brisbane City Council hosted what it believed to be the first national drugs debate in Australia. International and national drug experts…
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Technology streamlines Council meetings
A new system used at Alexandrina Council in South Australia, involving laptop computers and a digital projector, has reduced duplication in preparing Council papers. Providing…
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Inverell Online
Inverell Shire Council is aware of the potential economic and social benefits to rural communities that the Internet offers, its ability to bring the world…
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Improved e-business at Darebin *
AXS-One, a leading provider of financials and e-business solutions for Local Government, recently released its Enterprise version 7.0. The first Local Government to take advantage…
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Going for gold
Three Councils’ Olympic dream In the 2001 National Innovation Awards in Local Government in the Business and Regional Development category, three Councils, Cabonne, Orange and…
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Call for greater asset
A recent study into infrastructure asset conditions has called for Councils to implement asset management strategies and plans for asset renewal. Initiated by the South…
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Our ‘Can Do’ philosophy
From the CEO, Ian Fletcher My brief as Chief Executive Officer for the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder includes spending a reasonable amount of time in Perth…
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Australia’s largest outback city
On behalf of the Council and residents of our City, I wish to take this opportunity to introduce you briefly to the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder…
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Plenty to see and
Some of the world’s finest mining town architecture, the famous statue of Paddy Hannan, the enormous expanse of the Golden Mile Super Pit and journey…