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Located in south eastern Queensland, on the NSW border, Waggamba Shire covers 13,872 square kilometres. It has 1,500 kilometres of Shire Roads and 520 kilometres…

The election of the Howard Government in Australia on 2 March 1996 is only the fifth change of national government in Australia since the Second…

Regulation at all levels impacts significantly on the ability of business to do business. This is the case, not only with Commonwealth and State Governments,…

In a first for the Northern Territory, Tennant Creek Town Council has won a National Innovation Award. Winning the National Rural Award and the Community…

A software package which monitors, records and responds to customer requests, has taken out the overall National Award for Baw Baw Shire Council in Victoria.…

Developed over the past seven years in conjunction with all levels of government, the community and the residential development industry, the Australian Model Code for…

Using the very appropriate theme, ‘Working Together’, the first joint annual Conference of the Tasmanian Divisions of the Institute of Municipal Management, Institute of Municipal…

Earlier this year, when FOCUS expanded its circulation to cover all Councils Australia wide, we chose to produce two separate editions under our Gold and…

With most of Australia’s government and media concentrated on the eastern seaboard, inland Australia often finds itself ignored in mainstream policy making and discussion. To…

On Tuesday 6 August the Australian Bureau of Statistics will conduct the nation’s 13th Census of Population and Housing. More than seven million households in…

Tidy Towns Awards were initiated nearly 20 years ago as part of the Keep Australia Beautiful campaign. Since then they have become one of the…

The Local Government Environment Network is embarking on an exciting new project to facilitate the adoption of sustainability at the local level. As many Local…