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The National Awards for Innovation in Local Government (NAILG) are a Commonwealth Government program established to foster and acknowledge continuous improvement and innovation in the…

Jim Bacon’s new Labor Government is promising Tasmanian Councils a new deal. Through separate Partnership Agreements with each of the State’s 29 Councils, the two…

Australia’s seven Capital City Councils share a number of common traits, not the least being their special position as focal point for the State. This…

Describing it as ‘tax reform Black Friday for Councils and their communities across Australia’, President of the Australian Local Government Association, Councillor John Campbell, believes…

Each edition we feature the views of a State Local Government Association President. The following is from Mayor Ron Yuryevich, President of the Western Australian…

A proposed new transport corridor traversing Australia from the south west to the north east is set to add an important link to the national…

Management and staff at Local Government FOCUS would like to thank readers who took the time to complete our 1998 Survey. Once again we received…

In August, during Local Government Week, an agreement was signed by the then President of the Western Australian Municipal Association (WAMA), Ken Pech, and the…

With twice the State average of alcohol consumption, the Shire of Broome in Western Australia decided to develop a policy to minimise problems stemming from…

By Brendan O’Connor* In the October ’98 edition of Local Government FOCUS a report from the ‘CT 1998 Competing Solutions’ Conference gave the reader the…

Crow’s Nest Shire Council recently completed construction of its second water treatment plant which will filter water for the 1,300 residents of Crow’s Nest township.…

The City of Caloundra, one of Australia’s fastest growing centres, after an exhaustive evaluation of available Local Government software packages, has chosen the CivicView product…