Labor pledges voice for councils on National Cabinet

A Labor government would bring councils onto National Cabinet.

10 March, 2021

Returned LGAQ president vows to fight COVID ‘curve-ball’

Appointments, departures and movement in and around government.

25 October, 2020

Qld councils draw up battle plan against COVID-19

Queensland councils have presented the state government with a job-creating battle plan against coronavirus.

20 April, 2020

NSW, Qld diverge on council elections

NSW local government elections have been postponed but Queensland goes to the polls this weekend.

26 March, 2020

Aussie councils in running for top international gong

Australian councils have been named in the Intelligent Community Forum’s Top7 of 2020.

13 February, 2020

Councils call out worsening financial burden

Cost shifting and inadequate federal grants are compromising public infrastructure and services, local governments say.

1 November, 2018

Sacked councillors say minister’s action an ‘affront to democracy’

In a move condemned as unfair and undemocratic, Ipswich City Council will be dismissed and an administrator appointed under fast-tracked Queensland Government legislation.

10 July, 2018

Sunshine Coast plans for life without Noosa

By Paul Hemsley Queensland’s Sunshine Coast Council has moved quickly to officially sever ties with its forced-merger bedfellow, Noosa Council, by excluding it from its regional planning scheme after being allowed to decouple by the Campbell Newman government. The previous Noosa council is scheduled to be resurrected in January 2014 after residents in four areas […]

22 March, 2013