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The Municipal Association of Victoria held its Annual Conference in mid October, with both the State Premier and President of the MAV commending the partnership…

This year’s Category A joint winners of Victoria’s Premier’s Award for Continuous Improvement in Local Government were South Gippsland Shire Council and Wodonga City Council.…

A strong focus on sport and recreation in the community has won Western Australia’s City of Melville the Local Government Award at the Australian Sports…

The IPWEA/RTA Local Government Road Safety Project works to raise the priority of road safety in Local Government. This is achieved through support for Council…

Being young in Local Government can be an added pressure. However, for Alderman Janie Dickenson, it is more a challenge and an opportunity to make…

Councils invited to discuss solutions A conference focusing on practical solutions to help Local Government better manage the impacts of drug use on their communities…

After staging its Annual Conference and Field Days at Panthers in Penrith for the past decade, this year the Institute of Public Works Engineering (IPWEA)…

Australian Councils show action on greenhouse The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) wishes to acknowledge the leadership shown by the City of Melbourne…

Local Government conferences with a national reach are fairly rare. Organised by the Centre for Local Government at the University of New England, this conference…

The Good Oil by Rod Brown * Have you noticed that while ‘jobs growth’ always gets parroted at election time, economic development per se never…

By Rodin Genoff * Why would Local Government want to drive regional agendas? The short answer is that we cannot afford not to. In a…

Taroom Shire contains a number of substantial assets on which to base its increasing tourism activities.The Shire, in Queensland’s Central Highlands, benefits from the sought…