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Asset sales dominate NSW and QLD elections
Could asset sales sink Baird?
Proposal for just five Sydney councils
NSW Treasurer’s controversial remarks a ‘personal’ view
Queensland to upsize key dams and build new ones to mitigate future flood disasters
All too familiar with the physical and economic devastation that floods inflict, Queensland’s Newman government is now moving to substantially bolster water holding capacity to limit any potential future damage.
Dentists drill councils over water fluoridation decay
By Dr Karin Alexander* In the 1930s, American scientists and public health researchers made a simple, but profoundly important discovery. People living in towns with around one part per million…
Perth councils push their ideas for mergers
By Paul Hemsley The Western Australian government’s ambitious and controversial plan to “create fewer, bigger, stronger councils” by amalgamating Perth’s metropolitan councils is quickly taking shape after 19 local governments…
Government research finds rate rises more popular than council mergers
By Paul Hemsley New South Wales Premier Barry O’Farrell and his Local Government Minister Don Page have a new electoral headache to deal with in their efforts to sell the…
Queensland releases government technology vision
By Julian Bajkowski The Queensland Government has set out its grand vision for recasting how the state’s public sector buys and consumes more than $1.6 billion a year in technology…
Clover to spend $1.9 billion on City of Sydney’s infrastructure
By Paul Hemsley City of Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore has committed to an overhaul of the inner city’s streets and infrastructure by announcing that the council will embark on…
Panel urges O’Farrell to push ‘voluntary’ council amalgamations
By Paul Hemsley and Julian Bajkowski A push by the Independent Local Government Review Panel to the New South Wales government to encourage “voluntary amalgamations” of councils has sparked widely…