By Jane Garcia in Toowoomba The coincidental timing of the Local Government Association of Queensland’s annual conference held in Toowoomba about two weeks before the State election could have left a hole in the program when state politicians were unable to meet their commitment to attend, and those that did were curtailed in what they...
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September 13, 2006February 11, 2014by Staff WritersIn HousingLand managementLibraries & museumsManagementParks & streetscapesRoads
Inaugural awards commend Public Sector excellence in NT
By Adam Coleman ALICE SPRINGS, NT: The winners have been announced from the inaugural Chief Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Public Sector Management, which were held in Alice Springs last night. According to the host of the event, Chief Minister Clare Martin, the awards are designed to recognise, honour and celebrate excellence in public sector...
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Change of plans
By Kim Powell For most of 2006, local governments in NSW have been at loggerheads with the Planning Minister, Frank Sartor, over changes to the state’s planning laws. Last year, the Planning Minister gained the ability to declare a development as being ‘state significant’ and become the consent authority for the project. He says there...
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10,000 friends say take action on transport
By Kim Powell The NSW Government needs to make its vision for the future of Sydney more visible in order to stimulate the development industry to come up with appropriate kinds of development, says Robert Mitchell, chief operating officer of the Warren Centre. “What is really lacking is a visibility for the vision of Sydney,”...
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Share the drive
By Kim Powell In July 2005 the City of Yarra in Victoria became the first council in Australia to sign up to a community-based car share scheme, in line with the council’s policy of minimising their car fleet, and the trial has been so successful they are looking to extend it from two town halls...
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Key to fleet performance
By Jane Garcia Don’t underestimate the changing role of the fleet manager. In the past 10 years, the fleet manager has gone from somebody who used to just look after re-registration of vehicles to a business manager within an organisation, according to the Australasian Fleet Managers Association (AfMA) executive director Marja Thompson. “The skills the...
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August 23, 2006February 21, 2014by Staff WritersIn Emergency servicesEvents & conferencesFederalLand managementPublic transportWorkforce
Preparing for a pandemic
By Jane Garcia and Kim Powell As anyone who works in an office or catches public transport would testify, influenza is a highly contagious virus. New strains regularly emerge and make the prospect of wide-scale vaccination rather difficult. The regular garden-variety flu usually strikes infants and the elderly the hardest, however this is not always...
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Brisbane’s project management first
By Jane Garcia In the May edition of Government News magazine we reported on Australian Government plans to widen the use of Gateway reviews to monitor program and project management, especially in IT (Volume 26, Issue 4, Doorway to success, page 11). Brisbane City Council (BCC) was the first local government in Australia and one...
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Full and proper disclosure
By Kim Powell in Sydney The NSW Government has released updated guidelines regarding the declaration of all pecuniary interests at council meetings. The announcement was made by the Minister for Local Government Kerry Hickey at the NSW Shires Association annual conference held in Sydney in June. Mr Hickey told delegates that in recent cases, the...
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Spend it sensibly
By Jane Garcia No matter how hard you try does there always ends up being some mouldy green thing in the back of your refrigerator that might have started life as a fruit or vegetable? Or do you find yourself buying yet another bottle of conditioner when you already have two or three at home?...