While the NSW Government legislates for local government to work together in formalised groups, a diverse band of councils has already initiated their own alliances, writes Annalisa Haskell.
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Water clean-up buoyed by manufactured floating wetlands
Tackling water pollution with plant-filled platforms.
S&P vows vigorous defence against councils’ ‘lawsuit is without merit’
By Julian Bajkowski Global financial ratings agency Standard & Poors has vowed to fight fresh legal action against it to recover millions of dollars lost by dozens of Australian councils…
Councils to sue Standard & Poors in new action
By Julian Bajkowski Australian councils burned by toxic investments in collateralised debt obligations (CDOs) from collapsed bank Lehman Bros. have escalated their legal action and will try and rope-in ratings…
Lehman Brothers, Grange liable for council sub-prime losses
By Julian Bajkowski Local governments, charities and and not for profit groups have finally won a phyrric victory over collapsed US investment bank Lehman Brothers, after the Federal Court ruled…