Tag: nsw

By Paul Hemsley The quarterly ‘State of the States’ economic performance report from Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s securities arm, CommSec, has found that New South Wales and Queensland are falling…

By Julian Bajkowski A mass rally of New South Wales public sector workers protesting the O’Farrell government’s plans to slash around 10,000 jobs from agencies is primed to kick off…

By Julian Bajkowski Council enforcement and compliance powers covering parking, planning, health and safety in New South Wales could soon be rewritten after the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART)…

Felicity-Ann Lewis, Mayor of the City of Marion in Adelaide, South Australia, will replace Genia McCaffery as the head of the Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) according to an announcement…

Avis, Australia’s leading car rental company is delighted to be appointed as a preferred supplier under a Standing Offer Arrangement to the Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria and…

By Paul Hemsley and Julian Bajkowski Victorian local governments have warned that new bans on the controversial practice of coal seam gas (CSG) extraction through hydraulic fracturing (fraccing) in the…

Members of the Local Government and Shires Associations of NSW (LGSA) have voted to form a single group. Instead of two separate groups under the banners of the Local Government…

As the Victorian and NSW Governments want Australia to move to a full National Disability Insurance Scheme, the federal government wants the states to contribute themselves. The two state governments…

At a cost of $57 million, the Centre for Biosecurity at the NSW Government’s Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute in Sydney’s south-west in Menangle will test for diseases affecting animal and…

The New South Wales Government has released a paper – A New Planning System for NSW – which sets out its proposals to reform the NSW planning system.   It proposes…