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…
Category: Sector
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Healthy living
By Kim Powell Seven million Australians are overweight, and two million of us are obese. Our well-rounded figures indicate that two in three Australian males aged over the age of…
Tackling the taboo
By Kim Powell Illegal drugs. It seems not a week goes by without the issue making the news. The South Australian Democrats leader Sandra Kanck stirred the debate in May…
Green report for the public
By Jane Garcia Government departments and agencies have done well at tracking environmental and social data but not so good at turning this information into a well developed report which…
Urban scrawl
Kim Powell looks at the different ways some councils have approached the problem of graffiti. Brisbane City Council The issue of graffiti in Brisbane is being tackled by the Brisbane…