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Plastic roads head west
The first South Australian (SA) road built with soft plastics and glass at Happy Valley in the City of Onkaparinga has seen plastic from approximately…
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Biomass central
The Green Triangle region of Victoria and South Australia has been labelled ‘biomass central’ by industry experts at a recent bioenergy seminar. The region’s renewable…
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Editorial
It’s the start of a new year and local councils and shires are once again evaluating their New Year wish list. It comes as no…
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Drought funding delays
Tenterfield Shire Council, New South Wales, signed a $1 million contract for drought funding initiatives on 20 December 2018 after a protracted application process that…
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Citizenship celebrations under review
The Federal Government’s announcement yesterday that it will force councils to hold a citizenship ceremony on Australia Day, has been denounced by Australian Local Government…
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Coordinated resourcing needed to deliver
Rugby Australia will receive $20 million to upgrade facilities but Blacktown City Council will have to go it alone on its planned International Centre of…
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New waste policy lacks backbone
The Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) is calling for leadership from the Commonwealth following endorsement of the new National Waste Policy (NWP) at the 8th…
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Sustainable design policy
The City of Greater Bendigo, Victoria, will become the fi rst regional council to have an Environmentally Sustainable Design (ESD) policy added to its Planning Scheme. The…
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Do you really understand your suppliers?*
For many years, the focus for procurement has been squarely on efficiency: helping the organisation by securing key goods and services more cheaply, quickly, easily…
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Defence strategy welcomed
Chair of the South West Group Voluntary Regional Organisation of Councils (VROC), City of Melville Mayor, Russell Aubrey, has welcomed the development of Western Australia’s…
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Removing the pain from IT software choices*
A fully cloud based total software solution for local government, directly competing against other software suppliers, is taking the pain out of choosing council information…
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Retail development promises jobs boom
Construction is poised to begin on a landmark 30,000 sq m retail centre in Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, set to create more than 600…
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