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Tasmania’s Brighton Council has spent just over a month preparing for 370 Kosovan refugees. General Manager, Geoff Dodge, said Council’s main role was to address…

The 8th Annual Conference and Engineers Field Days ’99 was staged by the Institute of Municipal Engineers Australia (IMEA) – NSW Division from 2-8 May.…

Following the corporatisation of many water utilities, the NSW Division of the Institute of Municipal Engineering Australia (IMEA) has recently encouraged and assisted the establishment…

Smoke detectors will be supplied and fitted to the homes of older people under the Victorian City of Greater Bendigo’s Community Save a Life Project’.…

Warringah Council, on Sydney’s northern beaches, is seeing the benefits of combining all its environmental services – from bushland works to waste education to catchment…

Australia’s first drumMUSTER collection was held last month at Gunnedah Shire Council in NSW. drumMUSTER is the national program for the collection and recycling of…

Public transport has a number of advantages over private transport. It reduces the volume of traffic, road accidents and pollution. It also requires less road…

While many Councils provide facilities for dog owners to clean up the indelicate messages their pets leave behind its not easy to ensure everyone uses…

CivicView, the fully integrated Local Government management package, that has been developed by Insight Informatics and Kempsey Shire Council, can incorporate a Geographical Information System…

Parramatta is a primary centre in the Greater Sydney Region, second only to central Sydney in the size of its workforce and range of functions.…

Parramatta has a brilliant future. Inward investment is creating many new jobs, bringing greater prosperity to the whole region. “Commercial rent is cheaper than Sydney’s…

Parramatta is not resting on its laurels after winning the 1998 Metro Pride Award. The award, which is presented to the tidiest metropolitan Council from…