News
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Liverpool to host Italian Olympic team
Mayor of Liverpool, George Paciullo, and the Secretary General of the Italian Olympic Committee, Raffaele Pagnozzi, have signed an agreement making Liverpool the official host…
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Council enters news game
Brighton Council in Tasmania has stepped into the breach created by the slow demise of community newspapers. It has become the first Council in Tasmania…
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Jobs online
Melbourne’s Darebin City Council has begun advertising employment opportunities on its website. Like in many Council areas, Darebin is one of the largest employers. As…
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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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