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Glossy Black-Cockatoo Birding Day
Noosa Council, Queensland, put out an all points bulletin in October, calling for eagle-eyed residents to join Glossy Black-Cockatoo Birding Day. The Glossy Black-Cockatoo Conservancy…
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Gender equity framework informs all business
City of Greater Geelong, Victoria, has released the Ba-gurrk Gender Equity Framework to inform the development of an action plan which will ensure all of…
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Storytime turns twenty
Coffs Harbour City Council Libraries’ Storytime celebrated its 20th birthday last month with special birthday stories and, of course there was cake. As an additional…
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Councillor profiles – Mayor Dean Johnson District Council of Kimba
I am a proud and passionate rural resident who makes no apologies for continuing to be a fierce advocate for better services and infrastructure for…
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Councillor profiles – Mayor Lyn Brewer Whyalla City Council
Whyalla is a steel city that has struggled for many years. After steel company Arrium went into administration in 2016, we had 14 months of…
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Mobile technology aids safety
Enhanced community safety is just one benefit of the successful roll-out of 24/7 mobile technology for CoSafe officers, the mobile patrol security service instituted by…
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Bright future for local youth
Swan Hill Rural City Council was announced as one of five councils across Victoria to share in $2.5 million funding from the State Government’s Youth…
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Hawkesbury Watch quality monitor
Hornsby Shire Council’s Hawkesbury Watch is a unique program using remote monitoring buoys to collect real-time information on water conditions in the Hawkesbury River. The…
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Export meatworks one step closer
Maranoa Regional Council, Queensland is seeking a proposal and quotation to update the Maranoa Meat Processing Facility pre-feasibility report. In 2016 the Minister for Agriculture…
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Time to revisit your orphan projects – The Good Oil by Rod Brown
The Federal Government’s Regional Growth Fund and Building Better Regions Fund don’t add up to a hill of beans in the context of regional Australia’s…
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Pillowcase project
An educational program designed to better prepare Queensland’s Hinchinbrook primary school students for natural disasters began with St Peters Catholic School, Halifax, the first school…
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CouncilWise – ‘Now that’s different’*
A Tasmanian Council has developed a fully cloud based total software solution for local government and is now directly competing against other software suppliers. It…