Bushfires, BMX and coming out – council projects win awards
LGPro Victoria has announced the winners of its annual awards for excellence.
26 February, 2021LGPro Victoria has announced the winners of its annual awards for excellence.
26 February, 2021Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV) President Coral Ross is standing aside.
24 September, 2020The winners have been announced in the 2020 NSW Local Government Awards.
10 August, 2020Councils have been thrust into a front line role in the coronavirus response.
15 March, 2020A marked decline in local news means councils are losing an opportunity to engage with their communities.
16 June, 2019Local government has emerged with some wins out of the federal budget but the peak national body for councils says funding falls short.
3 April, 2019A national survey of the local government workforce has put a spotlight on a rapidly ageing workforce grappling with a “critical” skills shortage.
15 March, 2019The NSW election will be a pivotal one for local government, the head of the state’s peak body for councils says.
11 March, 2019As Australian governments mark International Women’s Day, representation of women in local government has reached a historical high point.
7 March, 2019Local government professionals are “not well positioned” in new and emerging soft skills, according to a forthcoming national review.
17 December, 2018An app connecting residents to council is among the initiatives recognised as part of Local Government Week.
3 August, 2018Victoria’s auditor has questioned the financial sustainability of local governments’ mutual insurance but MAV says the scheme protects councils ‘through thick and thin.’
26 July, 2018Recycling industry applauds the Andrews Government’s $37 million package to boost the market for recycled materials in the state, which follows Senate inquiry’s recommendation that governments adopt green procurement.
5 July, 2018Queensland is set to reform its process for allocating grants to councils with the State Government providing $4.5 million to tackle the long-running issue in its budget this week.
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