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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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

The GST will be implemented in just under 11 months. This is enough time for Councils to be ready if, but only if, preparations start…

Western Australian communities have the opportunity to record their Australia Day 2000 celebrations in a documentary video. It will be screened at the first Western…

When the Shire of Kent in Western Australia determined that it needed to extend the Shire Offices this was greeted with some scepticism by local…