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A new mobile app is being developed by the University of Sydney that will allow commuters to warn each other about crowded trains and buses, rowdy students or broken air conditioning – and transport operators will be linked in.

The Victorian government will offer free travel on Melbourne CBD trams as a hard fought extension to light rail in Sydney finally opens.

NSW councils are getting increasingly nervous over whether regional airlines will have continued guaranteed access to Sydney’s Kingsford Smith Airport if a second airport is built with fears growing country communities could lose access to services available only in the city.

A Queensland council that was part of a major de-amalgamation push in 2013 has moved swiftly to cloud computing after totally rebuilding its information technology department.

The Communications Minister has put agencies on notice that charging for access to taxpayer-funded information now lacks support at an official level and that Open Data is the way preferred way forward.

People suffering from bleeding disorders will be able to better monitor the state of their health and help treat their condition through a new mobile application.

The potential for the federal government’s planned Melbourne-to-Brisbane Inland Railway to reduce costly damage to local roads has led to praise from councils across Australia.

Medicare and Centrelink retail duties floated as a potential lifebuoy to stop mail from drowning in red ink.

Councils across New South Wales have benefited from a total fund of $16.5 million from the state government in 2013 to make urgent repairs to essential public assets destroyed by natural disasters.

A controversial plan to sell high value public housing property assets around the Sydney Harbour foreshore area has generated outrage from local government and community groups .