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ASC’s Disability Education Program
The Australian Sports Commission’s (ASC) Disability Education Program has been conducting disability awareness workshops with local service providers for three years. In that time, never…
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Active Australia Awards
The sport and recreation industry is emerging as one of Australia’s major service industries. The industry consists mainly of small organisations and businesses, such as…
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Quality coaching
According to the recently released Australian Bureau of Statistics report, titled ‘Sport and Recreation 1996/97’, at least 4.1 million Australians are involved in playing sport…
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Active Australia SportSafe
The Australian Sports Injury Prevention Taskforce has presented its report, ‘SportSafe Australia: A National Sports Safety Framework’. The report provides broad guidelines for Australians to…
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Tas amalgamations proceed
The Tasmanian Government’s announcement, in June, that Local Government amalgamations will go ahead, has seen the State’s 29 Councils reduced to fourteen. Six Councils, West…
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Best Value supersedes CCT in UK
Jenny Tibbitts, Organisational Development Officer with Blue Mountains City Council, recently returned from a three week study tour to the United Kingdom. She is the…
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Editorial
When Ken Crossland, Partner in the UK Management Consultancy Division of Coopers & Lybrand, spoke at this year’s Institute of Municipal Management National Congress, he…
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President’s comment
Each edition we feature the views of a State Local Government Association President. The following is from Councillor Ken Pech, President – Western Australian Municipal…
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Working for a sustainable future
Committed to Local Agenda 21, Mandurah and its surrounds, is the perfect location for a national forum to address the issue of sustainability. Organisers chose…
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Creating parks for people
Open space, parkland and preservation of precious indigenous species of flora are all important to the Council and residents of Maroochy Shire in Queensland. To…
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Library services to meet increased demand
With one of the highest rates of library usage in Queensland, Toowoomba City Council has allocated increased funding to this service to meet residents’ demands.…
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Charting new waters in Community Services
Local Government Community Services staff and Councillors from across Australia will gather in Sydney in October for the 7th National Conference on Local Government and…
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