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Community groups and Local Governments have been invited to apply for a new round of grants aimed at encouraging the development of new approaches and…

For many years Tasmania’s Clarence City Council, has run an annual clean up – a kerbside pick up of household rubbish including large items, such…

Whitehorse Council is believed to be the first Council in Australia to construct a road using 100 percent recycled products. Then Mayor, Councillor Jessie McCallum,…

Maroochy Shire Council will continue its investigations into the joint venture Brisbane Road Carpark proposal in a bid to help find a solution to carparking…

Local Government in the Territory is moving to a new era. The result will be a system of local governance that provides for better representation…

The Reform and Development Agenda launched in late 1998 has, so far, failed to deliver an effective outcome in structural reform. No new Councils that…

You cannot tour the other States and identify the best practice models for adoption by the Northern Territory. We are too different for that. Different…

The Current Methodology for the Calculation of Grants for the 68 Local Governing bodies in the Northern Territory has been heavily scrutinised, and has not…

In April last year, Cabinet approved the revised methodology for the distribution of the Northern Territory Operational Subsidy. This subsidy provides the main financial support…

The introduction of a new accounting code for all Territory Local Governments will have value for Councils trying to manage increasingly complex budgets. At the…

After wide consultation with animal welfare groups, councils, the pastoral industry, native wildlife bodies and Territorians generally, a new Animal Welfare Act was brought into…

The Territory will achieve a number of objectives with a recent decision to enter into whole of government partnership agreements with local Councils. Director of…