Category: Local

By Staff Writer The Strengthening Local Government Task Force is calling on the NSW State Government to provide a reform implementation fund to enable councils to long term strategic plan…

By Staff Writer The Local Government and Shires Associations of NSW has accused Planning Minister Frank Sartor of using local government as a scapegoat to justify removing planning powers from…

By Staff Writer The Council of Capital City Lord Mayors (CCLM) is seeking a new partnership with the Federal Government aimed at "boosting productivity and attracting capital, business investment, a…

By Staff Writer   The Local Government and Shires Association of NSW has welcomed the State Government’s decision to increase the rate variations for 28 councils for the 2007/08 financial year….

By Staff Writer Following a meeting with the Municipial Association of Victoria (MAV), Melbourne City Council has decided against using private investigators again to help shut down illegal brothels. The…

By Adam Coleman Randwick City Council in Sydney is inviting children and young people from the area to participate in a unique bus painting project aiming to improve young people's…

By Staff Writer In the wake of the floods that have devastated Newcastle in NSW, there has been an outpouring of support from Sydney councils. In response to an urgent…

By Adam Coleman The South Australian division of the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) has responded to a front page article in The Advertiser that criticised SA councils for being…

Victoria's Maribyrnong City Council's Maddern Square Improvement Project was recently awarded the Cement Concrete and Aggregates Australia Public Domain Award (Precincts) from a  field of national projects. The biannual CCAA Public…

By Jane Garcia in Sydney NSW Local Government Minister Paul Lynch has expressed his desire not have a ‘schoolmaster’ relationship with the state’s councils but work together to “develop solutions…