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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…
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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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