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‘Beyond Y2K’ clean management training*
Helping your people to keep your organisation ‘Y2K clean’, even after you have become Y2K compliant. As Australia’s leading training provider in both IT and…
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Leadership program benefits community
Staff at Melbourne’s Bayside City Council are gaining valuable management skills from Council’s commitment to staff development programs. Recently, 60 managers and coordinators undertook a…
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Message from the Minister
I am pleased to bring you this issue of National Perspective. This issue includes the latest news on Local Government issues, particularly the Federal Government’s…
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Strategic Partnerships
The Federal Minister for Local Government, Senator Ian Macdonald, is keen to ensure that councils are supported at the Federal level in their demanding and…
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First Rural Transaction Centres approved
Twelve councils have successfully secured funding in round one of the Federal Government’s Rural Transaction Centres (RTC) Programme. Senator Ian Macdonald, Minister for Regional Services,…
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Leading Practice projects
Fifty Leading Practice projects were funded through the National Office of Local Government in 1998-1999. The Federal Minister for Local Government, Senator Ian Macdonald, announced…
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National Awards for Innovation launched
The Federal Minister for Local Government, Senator Macdonald, recently launched the 12th National Awards For Innovation in Local Government (NAILG) at the 18th IMM National…
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GST update
As a service to Local Government, we intend to give a regular update in The National Perspective on developments with the Government’s tax reform package…
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Engineers take up the challenges
President of the American Public Works Association and keynote speaker at the recent first International Congress of Local Government Engineers and Public Works, Robert Miller,…
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Editorial
As the clock counts down to the next millennium, communities across the nation, and the governments that represent them, face some important issues running through…
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President’s comment
Each edition we feature the views of a Local Government Association President. The following is from Councillor Margaret Vigants, Local Government Association of the Northern…
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Cutting edge Congress CD
Instead of the traditional large booklet, delegates attending the International Local Government Engineering and Public Works Congress received a CD Rom covering the conference proceedings…
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