The regional capital cities that provide a central point to access to essential infrastructure, services, employment and education have been talked up as a potential economic powerhouse in a new report.
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Australian Institute of Criminology to probe councils’ use of CCTV
The use of CCTV cameras by local governments is about to come under scrutiny by the AIC as it tries to evaluate whether governments are getting value for money through their investment in these critical surveillance systems.
WA targets number plates to catch “worst fine bludgers”
Hard-core fine evading drivers will have nowhere to hide as the Western Australian government looks to add a number plate detection camera to its stockpile of high-tech law enforcement weaponry.
Budget APS redundancies just the start of new outsourcing jobs cull
Confirmed 16,500 sackings just the start of new wave sell-offs and dispatch of jobs to industry.
WA councils threaten to abandon reform over insufficient funding
Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett is under attack from councils over inadequate funding in the State Budget 2014-15 for ambitious local government mergers.
Revolt over $925 mil Budget raid on councils
Rates rises and big cuts to local community services set to roll as Financial Assistance Grants frozen.
NSW public servants banished from Sydney CBD, sent to Western front
Mike Baird and Tony Abbott’s push to bolster job growth and economic activity in the electoral heartland of Sydney’s Western suburbs is gathering pace as a key department is sent packing from the city centre.
Sydney wants to start distilling its rubbish into renewable fuels
The City of Sydney is digging into its mammoth pile of garbage with a new clean energy technology that aims to transform stinking gasses into an upcycled energy resource pumped back into the power grid.
Trouble plagued eHealth project gets $140 million to continue pending review
Tony Abbott couldn’t get eHealth running as John Howard’s Health Minister. But the long march to digitise medicine will continue.
NICTA told to get private funding after 2016
Australia’s tech powerhouse becomes a victim of its own commercial success.