News
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Big thinking pays off
Twelve months of innovative and flexible thinking paid off in a big way for Burwood Council at local government’s night of nights. Council achieved peer…
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Editorial
Equal Pay Day was not exactly celebrated on 31 August, more like noted. The date, set by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, marked the additional…
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Rural roads get new treatment*
Big spending on infrastructure by the Federal Government continues to drive the national COVID-19 recovery. With the just-released 15 year roadmap of reforms from Infrastructure…
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Bioresources powering the city
City of Gold Coast, Queensland, is expanding opportunities to produce cost-saving energy and commercial soil products from its bioresources. Bioresources include food organics, green organics,…
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Dirty glass recycled
Shoalhaven City Council, New South Wales, has received grant funding of $500,000 from the Environment Trust to enter into a partnership with University of New…
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Meet Rose the chatbot
Devonport City Council is the first local government in Tasmania and one of very few in Australia to introduce a chatbot. General Manager, Matthew Atkins…
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Recycling on the move
Northern Midlands Council, Tasmania, has launched its new mobile recycling centre. An initiative of the newly formed Northern Midlands Local Recycling Committee, the Recycling Trailer…
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Procurement model goes strategic
A new approach to procurement by Logan City Council, Queensland, will deliver increased value for money for the community. Strategic contracting procedures will be implemented…
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Driver identification – more important than ever*
Traditionally fleet telematics solutions provide a single method for identifying drivers. This could either be a physical validator such as an RFID tag, or an…
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Recycled plastics are export quality
A top recycling program in Armidale, New South Wales, is the key to securing a partnership with South America. While others are putting recyclables into…
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Reef trial to reduce erosion
City of Cockburn will host Western Australia’s first full-scale trial of an engineered reef designed to slow down coastal erosion by breaking down wave energy…
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Tech for living assets
Planting and looking after trees in the City of Gosnells, Western Australia, has taken a technical turn, with the recent introduction of field data reporting…
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