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Redcliffe cleans up at Queensland Tidy Town awards
The City of Redcliffe, located in south east Queensland, has been named Queensland’s Tidiest Town for 2005 over 211 other entrants. Queensland’s Attorney General and…
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Getting to know your local Council
Holroyd City Council in New South Wales has developed a community education program that equips residents from culturally diverse backgrounds with knowledge about the local…
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Engaging for the future
The UK Experience by Malcolm Morley* In England, two major national public sector organisational structural initiatives have been launched. The first is a reorganisation of…
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Call for more action on Opal fuel roll out
With petrol sniffing an increasing epidemic, particularly in remote communities, the President of the Local Government Association of the Northern Territory (LGANT), Alderman Kerry Moir…
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Hurstville steers its way to recovery
Hurstville City Council has worked fast and hard to make a significant improvement to an anticipated deficit in its 2004/05 budget. Eighteen months ago the…
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Australia’s largest organic collection trial
In an effort to reduce the amount of household organic waste going to landfill, 4,000 residents in the City of Burnside in South Australia are…
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Wollongong leads the way in assessing financial viability
Wollongong City Council will urge the Department of Local Government to introduce mandatory credit assessments for medium and large Councils following their recent achievement of…
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Future directions in best practice
An interview with Brent Arstrong, General Manager at Hobart City Council, Tasmania Brent Armstrong believes that to drive consistent and sustainable improvement, organisations need to…
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Give me that photo – now!
Most Local Governments have a huge body of images, pictures and logos. These range from photos of Councillors and Council functions, through to shots of…
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Green light for Hobsons Bay
Hobsons Bay City Council in Victoria has recently developed and introduced a new system for processing permits. The Green Light Online Permit Manager enables residents…
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PPP solution to address infrastructure backlog
Over the last two years both Cardinia and Mornington Peninsula Shire Councils in Melbourne have embarked on developing Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) to assist in…
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Benefits all round from Eurobodalla’s CBD infrastructure PPP
When Eurobodalla Shire Council identified the need for 400 additional carparks in Batemans Bay CBD, the Public Private Partnership (PPP) it established has delivered a…
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