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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…
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Events help senior community prosper
Town of Claremont, Western Australia, with over 35 percent of the community aged over 55, has an annual program of events for seniors to aid…
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Weekend warriors clean up graffiti
A small, but dedicated team of volunteers gathered over the weekend for Mooree Plains, New South Wales, Graffiti Removal Day, on Sunday 21 October 2018.…
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Untapped bounty used for drought relief
Ipswich City Council staff are behind a heartfelt initiative that is making a difference to Queensland farming families in need. On 20 October council staff…
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The complexities of Local Government – President’s comment
In my second year as President, the VLGA has been working closely with our members and the sector more broadly, to highlight and support the…
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Drought Communities Program Workshop at Roads Congress
There are now 81 councils eligible to receive funding under the Federal Government’s Drought Communities Program (DCP), including 40 councils in New South Wales, 22…
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