There is a pressing need for a defined state government policy which provides a trigger for the construction of new libraries in new and expanding communities in the same way that there are policy provisions for schools and hospitals.
21 November, 2019
Local government is failing to ensure council libraries are delivering value for money.
14 November, 2019
The federal government’s per capita expenditure on the arts has dropped over the last ten years.
1 October, 2019
A Melbourne library is getting a full-time social worker in a sign of the changing role of libraries.
2 September, 2019
The WA State Library has paid $14,000 at auction for a letter by AC/DC frontman Bon Scott.
29 March, 2019
The NSW election will be a pivotal one for local government, the head of the state’s peak body for councils says.
11 March, 2019
Recommendations not to move the Powerhouse Museum to western Sydney have alarmed the council at the centre of the stoush.
4 March, 2019
A network of local museums is collaborating to preserve valuable heritage collections online as part of a national initiative.
7 September, 2018
Local government has found itself responsible for Australia’s growing array of local museums and a new analysis highlights many are struggling with staffing and resourcing.
16 July, 2018
Nearly 90 percent of Australia’s library users think online library services are important, but only 61 percent are satisfied with the online experience they are receiving from libraries. That compares with 85 percent of the users are happy with the physical experience of a library. The finding comes in a new report from the University […]
26 February, 2018
The Commercial Hotel in Heyfield The small Gippsland town of Heyfield, 200 km east of Melbourne, has been named Australia’s ‘Strongest and Most Resilient Community’. The award was given as part of the 2017 national Power to the People Conference, organised by the the Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV) and the Bank of I.D.E.A.S. “The […]
8 January, 2018
NSW local government is performing well. In most areas. But it is lacking in its participation rate of females, particularly in management. This had potentially dangerous consequences for the future workforce capacity. Every private and public sector organisation should be asking itself whether its workforce is fit for the future. Many leaders are formulating more […]
27 November, 2017
The new ANZ Local Government Digital Maturity Index (DMI) contains a number of interesting findings. One of the most intriguing is the fact that most Local Government Authorities do a reasonable job at delivering services digitally, but that behind-the-scenes there are still many manual processes. The DMI contains four sub-indexes. One of these looks at […]
5 November, 2017
Service NSW, the NSW Government’s ‘one stop shop’ program, is proving popular with the public. But it has been expensive, and will take more than three years longer to recoup its investment than what the Government said. Both the NSW Opposition and Fairfax Media have obtained copies of an unreleased KPMG report into Service NSW’s costs. […]
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