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Maroondah City Council recently received a VicSafe Community Safety and Crime Prevention Award for the successful implementation of its Graffiti Strategy Pilot Program. Council has…

A project to rehabilitate a local lagoon at Sorell in southern Tasmania will ultimately transform the region through effluent reuse as irrigation. Unlike most of…

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…

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…

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…

This year, Pittwater Council in NSW had assistance from an unusual consulting source. Under an initiative developed by the Quality Council of Australia, known as…

Where better to locate a second hand shop than at Council’s tip. Every day people with unwanted goods, useable or not, take them to tips…

Welcome to this special issue of National Perspective. I am delighted to present to you the winners of The National Awards for Innovation in Local…

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…