States crack down on misbehaving councillors, vexatious complaints
Victoria is cracking down on misbehaving councillors, while new Queensland laws target vexatious complainants.
22 November, 2023Victoria is cracking down on misbehaving councillors, while new Queensland laws target vexatious complainants.
22 November, 2023The new training regime will give council members a grounding in civic, legal and behavioural responsibilities.
12 October, 2022All of City of Sydney’s pools, libraries and council buildings will be powered by wind and solar under a $60 million clean energy deal.
22 October, 2019Australia’s councils have voted to demand a referendum recognising local government in the Constitution.
17 June, 2019An Australian delegate discusses key takeaways from Europe’s biggest gathering of local government professionals.
15 April, 2019Survey will assess how local government handles, resolves and records complaints from the public.
5 February, 2019An end-to-end service view is among the approaches local government teams are adopting to ensure financial sustainability, write Ben Smith and Ash McIntosh.
4 February, 2019From futureproofing to scalability, there are several reasons why local government should consider cloud.
31 January, 2019Local government professionals are “not well positioned” in new and emerging soft skills, according to a forthcoming national review.
17 December, 2018Local governments refute developer peak body’s claim that they’re behind development targets.
6 December, 2018Local government peak will seek exemptions to a new code that requires NSW’s councils to webcast proceedings.
19 November, 2018From requesting a tree planting to reporting suspicious tree work, residents in Sydney’s leafy Mosman have a simplified way to raise tree issues with their council.
5 November, 2018A council’s floating solar farm and a museum’s energy upgrade project are among local government climate change initiatives recognised in awards.
22 October, 2018Financial constraints and rising expectations are impacting the mental wellbeing of councils’ most senior managers, with the issue now set to be investigated in new research.
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