News
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Program guides Shire’s future leaders
Eleven students from secondary schools and alternative education institutions across Cardinia Shire have graduated from Council’s 2013 Young Leaders program. The innovative, Council-funded program targets…
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Best practice: Enterprise Risk Management*
Historically, risk management has tended to focus on the negative – how do we identify what might go wrong? How bad will things get if…
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Moreland City Council
Moreland City Council
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Women make their mark
Women in Australia are under-represented in local government at senior levels. According to the Women in Local Government Strategy 2009-2012, around one quarter of councillors,…
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Editorial
With the face of local government changing and responsibilities ever increasing, funding, as always, is a huge concern. For now, at least, there will be…
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Have your say… Letters to the editor
Dear LG FocusThe City of Stirling is taking up the fight to protect the areas it will lose from its boundary under proposed local government…
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Fishing rights affirmed for Torres Strait Islanders
A group of Torres Strait Islanders has won a bid to secure commercial fishing rights under native title. The group wants to build an economic…
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High Line founder hopes to inspire others
Robert Hammond, co-founder of New York City’s High Line, a paragon of urban revitalisation, says he and co-founder Joshua David had two dreams for the…
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Local Government the grass roots – President’s comment
Local Government in South Australia is going through a quiet revolution, or to be more accurate an evolution, as the expectations of our communities increase…
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Moreland named Sustainable City of the Year
Moreland has been named the 2013 Sustainable City of the Year at the Keep Australia Beautiful Victoria Sustainable Cities Awards ceremony in July. A total…
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Council to address risks raised in ICAC hearing
City of Ryde councillors have endorsed a program of actions relating to the management of confidentiality and code of conduct following evidence heard at the…
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Local authorities for local voices in NT
The Northern Territory Government has fulfilled an election commitment by introducing a Bill to make changes to the Local Government Act (the Act). Minister for…
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