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The New South Wales government has selected the route for the Newcastle light rail, which will connect the city centre with the waterfront.

The South Australian Local Government Association has warned that council revenue could be hit by Federal Budget cuts to state concessions, with a flow on to reduction to pensioner discounts on council rates.

Opposition to sell-off intensifies from left and right.

Councils in Victoria will be ranked against each other on a new website grading their performance and accountability that mirrors the federal government’s controversial ‘league table’ style website ‘MySchool’.

The Australian Centre for Excellence in Local Government has warned that an essential coordination mechanism between Canberra, the states and councils has been sacrificed in the Budget following the axing of the COAG Reform Council.

The federal government is trying to pick apart the complex web of regulations encumbering small businesses attempting to adopt cloud computing and has issued another guide that it claims will give enterprises greater confidence in taking up the new platform.

So tell us what you really think… there are questions galore as the US online powerhouse aims for a local sample base of 200,000 Australians to take on entrenched market research firms in a digital battle for constituent and customer data.

Forecast for stagnation blamed on ritualistic Canberra bashing.

Victims of the Blue Mountains bushfires in October 2013 have launched a class action against Endeavour Energy over an alleged failure to trim trees that fell on electrical conductors and burst into flames.

The government’s review of the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record has not only recommended that a new Commission be set up to run the scheme but that electronic records become the default.