A new $300 million a year community infrastructure fund and a boost to grants are among the measures local government are hoping to see in tonight’s federal budget.
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Mixed reaction to environment ministers’ recycling agreement
Local government welcomes new pledge to tackle waste but recycling industry says implementation detail and funding are missing.
New body to coordinate natural disaster recovery
New national resilience taskforce welcomed but councils seek federal mitigation program to fund local recovery.
Councils, industry call for national waste and recycling plan
Local government is scrambling to avoid a “recycling crisis” as China clamps down on accepting foreign waste, which threatens to derail councils’ collection of kerbside recycling, a parliamentary inquiry has been told.
Small councils to go hungry
Warnings about the financial struggles facing small rural councils should trouble us all.
Local Government promoted into Turnbull’s Cabinet
Back at the big table.
Tweet your worth, councils told
#yourratesatwork.
Local government’s shopping list for the 2016 election
What councils really want from the new PM.
Councils welcome Federal relief: Budget2016
In from the cold.
Funding is the big challenge for local roads
Infrastructure backlog blow-out.