Sydney is in the top 10 of the world’s best cities to live, according to Mercer’s 2008 Worldwide Quality of Living Index. Ranked at number 10, Sydney came in ahead…
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Collaborative services for Indigenous Queenslanders
A Coalition of Indigenous Human Services is set to be established to provide Indigenous Queenslanders with more responsive supports. As part of the Indigenous service delivery reforms, the $1 million…
Highlights from the 96th Tasmanian Local Government Conference
The 2008 Local Government Association of Tasmania (LGAT) Conference, held at the Country Club in Launceston from 18 – 20 June, kicked off with the LGAT General Meeting and AGM….
Riding the waves of change
Faced with imminent challenges, the 96th Tasmanian Local Government Conference has provided councils with an opportunity to transform new questions into concrete strategies. Over two hundred elected members, general managers…
QLD housing to go greener
Housing sustainability is the issue that “literally go to the heart of how we live”, the state’s planning minister Paul Lucas said, putting forward a proposal to toughen sustainability measures…
Government provides funding for housing measures
The Housing Affordability Fund (HAF) is a $512 million fund that aims to lower the cost of building new homes by targeting critical supply side issues including the length of…
PM’s Indigenous housing push
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced the formation of a National Policy Commission to help provide more housing in remote Indigenous communities. “In my National Apology speech I committed the…
Australian first for WA renters
The Western Australian Government is doing its bit for housing affordability, with a groundbreaking plan to increase rental properties in the inner city by 2011. The plan, which is believed…
BUDGET 08-09: Planners call for details of infrastructure spending
The first budget of the incoming Rudd Government targets infrastructure and foreshadows significant spending but ‘what will be built, where, by when and who and how will priorities be determined?”…
Sartor discusses vision for planning
NSW Planning Minister Frank Sartor used his keynote address to the Planning Institute of Australia’s annual conference in Sydney on Monday (April 14) to defend proposed amendments to the state’s…