Category: Land management

While welfare payments and tax shifts dominate National Commission of Audit’s wish list, there’s still plenty of potential pain points for the federal public sector.

The federal Treasurer and Justice Minister have announced a landmark probe into finding better ways to manage the billions of dollars needed to mop up after and mitigate environmental ravages.

The International Council on Archives has elected Australia’s very own top record keeper David Fricker as its President for the next four years, drawing upon his deep experience in making public sector information managers more digitally savvy.

Flood damage to public infrastructure can easily wash away local government financial resources. Now the peak body for councils is demanding a real increase in mitigation money from jurisdictions above them in an effort to stop them drowning in waterborne debt.

Catastrophic floods delivered harsh and real lessons for Queenslanders about how to deal with the forces of nature. Now the Newman government is trying to put that knowledge and experience to work by creating a disaster management training course.

Queensland Premier Campbell Newman wants to flush away excess water projects to the private sector to pay off debt and save on maintenance costs.

All too familiar with the physical and economic devastation that floods inflict, Queensland’s Newman government is now moving to substantially bolster water holding capacity to limit any potential future damage.

The anticipated growth of freight rail use over the next decade has led the Queensland government to look for a new operator to manage heavier and more frequent loads.

A Queensland council that was part of a major de-amalgamation push in 2013 has moved swiftly to cloud computing after totally rebuilding its information technology department.

The public sector is being urged to look at innovative savings and benefits instead of restrictive paywalls for access to public data.