By Lilia Guan The landscape of the Australian workforce is changing as the country’s baby boomers to make way for Generation Y. Changes to industrial relations and occupational…
Category: Land management
Carbon tax to change procurement behaviour
By Paul Hemsley If local governments spend more in the short term, they will spend less in the long term, according to All-Energy Australia regional director, Boyd Dale. Mr Dale…
ACT preparing for President Obama
By Lilia Guan Parliament House will be closed to the public from midday Wednesday 16 to midday Thursday 17 November 2011, for the arrival of the United States President,…
VicTrack manages project workload with CA
Through a tender process, CA Technologies has been selected to provide a software solution that would help government rail businsess Victorian Rail Track manage and support a significant increase in…
Disasters coordinated through capital based facility
By Paul Hemsley The Australian Government funded the $14 million Crisis Coordination Centre (CCC), which monitors risks and crises 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Attorney-General Robert McClelland…
Townsville City Council finds knowledge with IMC
By Lilia Guan Queensland-based Townsville City Council (TCC) has implemented a knowledge management product, for faster responses to its constituents' enquiries. TCC chose IMC Communications to implement livepro, a…
Tweed delivers mobile services
To meet the demands of tourists and locals Tweed Shire Council has created a portfolio of services that can be delivered and utilised via a mobile phone. In the…
Pipeline flows from three tier agreement
A water pipeline building project will receive about twenty million dollars in funding from an agreement between Tamworth Regional Council, the NSW Government and the federal government. The Barraba Pipeline…
Federal funds branch out to councils
The Regional Development Australia Fund (RDAF) is a $1 billion federal program investing a first round of $150 million in 35 projects worth almost $418 million. Most of the projects…
University uses solar energy
A photo-voltaic solar array at the Australian National University (ANU) will reduce the campus’s carbon emissions, feed energy back into the grid and help educate the community about energy conservation…