More than 1,000 new Indigenous rangers to be employed
The federal government will fund up to 1,089 new Indigenous rangers over the next six years.
4 April, 2022The federal government will fund up to 1,089 new Indigenous rangers over the next six years.
4 April, 2022Councils have received $500m to deliver priority projects via the Local Roads and Community Infrastructure program in the federal budget.
29 March, 2022The federal budget will contain $17.9 billion for infrastructure projects, boosting the investment pipeline to more than $120 billion.
28 March, 2022The use of resources by local councils will come under the spotlight in a Productivity Commission inquiry.
21 February, 2022State and local governments spent more than $400 million on cycling related infrastructure and programs in 2020.
21 October, 2021Government sites found themselves caught up in Facebook’s media ban.
18 February, 2021The federal budget offers a lifeblood to local government to drive economic recovery, councils say.
6 October, 2020The Treasurer is standing by his department despite a $60 billion JobKeeper error.
25 May, 2020The mid-year economic update has $4.2 billion in new and accelerated infrastructure spending.
16 December, 2019As energy ministers meet with their federal counterpart Josh Frydenberg, Tony Wood’s guide compares the states’ various stances on the future of the National Energy Guarantee.
9 August, 2018Commonwealth departments and state and local governments would adopt more explicit ‘green procurement’ policies under measures recommended by a Senate committee.
2 July, 2018Local government welcomes new pledge to tackle waste but recycling industry says implementation detail and funding are missing.
1 May, 2018Record-breaking temperatures across Australia have seen no end to the continued bickering over climate and energy policy in Australia. The release of Keating-era cabinet papers from 1994 show that the Governmnet was struggling with how to address the issue even then. In 1992, Environment Minister Ros Kelly had signed Australia up to the new UN […]
11 January, 2018They didn’t make a big deal of it, but the Productivity Commission’s new five-year overview report, commissioned by the Federal Government, has recommended the introduction of a carbon price. The productivity commission is of course an advisory body, and the Government has explicitly ruled out a price on carbon or anything that can even remotely […]
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