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Australia’s first nationally heritage listed city
Broken Hill’s outstanding significance to the nation for its role in creating enormous wealth, its enduring and continuing mining, importance to industrial relations and unionism,…
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Major rail investment
Rail Freight Alliance Chair, Councillor Mark Byatt welcomed the multimillion-dollar commitment from the Victoria State Government to upgrades of the Mildura rail network. “This is…
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Final Federation Reform Issues Paper asks the big questions
The fifth and final Issues Paper to be prepared as part of the Reform of the Federation White Paper process, COAG and Federal Financial Relations…
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Politics: a fragile state of affairs – President’s comment
Over the past three years, I have regularly commented on the fragility of the political process in Australia and just how hard it is to…
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Council achieves 5 Green Star rating
Wollongong City Council’s Administration Building in Burelli Street has become the first building in Australia to achieve a 5 Star Green Star Performance rating, signifying…
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Construction underway on sewerage network
Work on the construction of a sewerage network for the industrial land development adjoining the Armidale Regional Airport is well underway. Armidale Dumaresq Council has…
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Inaugural conference
The inaugural conference of the Central Queensland Regional Organisation of Councils (CQROC) was recently held in Emerald with great success. The CQROC conference allowed members…
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Agreement to build healthy partnership
Improved health and wellbeing within the community is the core aim under a formalised agreement between Cairns Regional Council (CRC) and the Cairns and Hinterland…
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2015 Heart Foundation Local Government Awards*
The Heart Foundation Local Government Awards recognise and showcase councils who are working to improve heart health through building a sense of community, encouraging people…
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The new approach to Indigenous advancement – The Good Oil by Rod Brown
There is only one federal indigenous agenda these days – the Indigenous Advancement Strategy. It began last July, and has a four-year budget of $4.8…
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Bringing swimming back to the river
A new initiative launched by the Parramatta River Catchment Group (PRCG), Our Living River, is on a mission to bring back swimming to the entire…
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Regional capitals under microscope
Australia’s regional capitals will soon be put under the microscope, after the Senate announced an Inquiry into the growth and economic potential of regional capitals.…
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