The City of Perth wants to make begging in the streets a thing of the past by directing people asking for money in public to government agencies in order to help them resolve their problems.
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Brookfield named as preferred bidder to build new Perth Stadium
The Colin Barnett government is pushing ahead with its highly anticipated project to create a new Perth Stadium, naming its preferred tenderer to build, maintain and manage the planned sports facility.
Barry O’Farrell resigns claiming ‘massive failure of memory’ over gift of $3000 bottle of wine
NSW leader’s career drowned by inconsistent evidence over delivery of 1959 bottle of Penfolds Grange.
National Archives chief David Fricker elected to lead the world in record keeping
The International Council on Archives has elected Australia’s very own top record keeper David Fricker as its President for the next four years, drawing upon his deep experience in making public sector information managers more digitally savvy.
Queensland government hits Underground Coal Gasification player Linc Energy with environmental damage charges
Anger and accusations fly over why an official investigation took nine months with little detail of what damage was caused.
Councils demand federal and state liquidity injection to float flood mitigation measure
Flood damage to public infrastructure can easily wash away local government financial resources. Now the peak body for councils is demanding a real increase in mitigation money from jurisdictions above them in an effort to stop them drowning in waterborne debt.
Napthine pledges railway link to Melbourne airport in just time for election
Melbourne has long suffered from the lack of a heavy rail link to speed passengers and staff to Tullamarine airport. Now the Napthine government has unveiled ambitious plans to fix the infrastructure deficit in the run-up to the November election.
NSW councils urge O’Farrell to act on local government reform
The New South Wales government is under pressure from councils to act on recommendations from the Independent Local Government Review Panel before the next election in 2015.
Queenslanders dispatched to disaster management school
Catastrophic floods delivered harsh and real lessons for Queenslanders about how to deal with the forces of nature. Now the Newman government is trying to put that knowledge and experience to work by creating a disaster management training course.
Why PM&C’s social media policy is a dud
Getting across social media has never been easy for government organisations of any kind.