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Ipswich maintains service delivery edge
Queensland’s Ipswich City Council has worked with the Queensland Partnership Group (QPG) to develop a strategy that will greatly improve customer service across Council’s rates…
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Onkaparinga supports women in the workplace
South Australia’s City of Onkaparinga has been recognised nationally for its culture of championing opportunities for its female employees. In September, Council was announced as…
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Measuring carbon and waste
Moreton Bay Regional Council is going green this Christmas, measuring carbon outputs and implementing the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Public Place Recycling program to reduce…
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SA delivers some good news amid financial turmoil
South Australia’s Local Government Finance Authority (LGFA) has defied the current uncertainty in global financial markets, delivering a profit of $5.2 million – its second…
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Rate pegging under review in NSW
New South Wales Premier, Nathan Rees, told delegates at the Local Government Association Annual Conference staged in Broken Hill from 25 to 29 October that…
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Editorial: global financial crisis effects climate change policies
In March this year, an Australian National University (ANU) poll found that respondents ranked the environment first, followed by the economy, when asked what were…
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President’s comment
In each edition we feature the views of a Local Government Association president. The following is from Alderman Kerry Moir, President of the Local Government…
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Over the horizon: IPAA Qld’s 2008 Annual Public Sector Conference
In October, more than 200 people looked over the horizon at ways of creating a more modern, efficient and effective public service during the Institute…
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Carbon offset program for Perth
The City of Perth is taking the lead in countering the effects of carbon emissions through a major tree planting program. Council has agreed to…
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Frankston: Australia’s most sustainable city
Located 40 kilometres south of Melbourne, the City of Frankston has taken out the overall national Keep Australia Beautiful (KAB), Australian Sustainable Cities Award for…
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Doberman or dream deliverer?
The Good Oil by Rod Brown* ‘Nugget’ Coombs was the chief adviser to a string of Prime Ministers a few decades back. And old timers…
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Australian Security Fencing: Protecting your interests*
Australian Security Fencing Pty Ltd (ASF) was established in 1988. A family business located in Western Sydney, ASF manufactures and installs a range of high…
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