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Bass Coast Council’s home care team is a finalist in 2000 Victorian Training Awards under the category ‘Employer of the Year – Public Enterprise Award’.…

Protecting our biodiversity was the focus of a two day seminar in August staged by the Local Government Association of Tasmania (LGAT) in conjunction with…

Welcome to this edition of National Perspective. This publication is a useful forum for providing updates on Federal Government programmes, especially initiatives for Local Government.…

Young Australians aged between 14 and 27 who are improving the community in which they live, will be recognised in a Regional Initiative category of…

The Carnamah and surrounding communities in Western Australia will receive a boost from new business in October 2000. The town of Carnamah is situated in…

Local Government in the Riverina has developed a space age innovation to bring local mapping into the 21st century. Launching the Riverina Eastern Regional Organisation…

The cost of maintaining and improving Local Government infrastructure and the review of the Commonwealth Financial Assistance Grants to Local Government were among matters discussed…

As we enter the ‘Olympic month’, world attention is undoubtedly focusing on Sydney. While some Sydneysiders are anticipating total disruption to normality of life, others…

The Good Oil by Rod Brown* One of my US colleagues is David Dodd, an economic development practitioner based in Louisianna, (DADCONSULT@aol.com), has visited Australia…

Information sharing &endash; creating an electronic single point of access As is happening around Australia, Local Government authorities in Western Australia are looking at how…

The Local Government Association of the Northern Territory (LGANT) staged its annual conference and AGM on 20-21 September. Then President of LGANT, Councillor Margaret Vigants,…

The role of every member of staff at Sydney City Council will include the task of city ambassador as visitors flood in for the Olympics…