A Melbourne council is trialing a road pavement technology designed to minimise urban flooding.
Tag: city-of-yarra
Proposal floated for council-owned energy retailer
Councils would become renewable energy retailers under an innovative proposal.
Uber on-demand bike scheme comes to Melbourne
Melbourne councils have signed an MOU with Uber to deliver an electric bike share scheme.
Australia enters era of ‘grab-and-go’ library
Yarra City Council has developed an Australia-first ‘grab-and-go’ library app.
Opinion – Pointless Australia Day point scoring obscures real issues
Australia Day rolls around again this week. Its observance has once again become an issue, with many councils, individuals and The Greens calling for its date to be changed, or…
Melbourne wins global sustainability award
By Paul Hemsley The City of Melbourne has triumphed over New York and Berlin in worldwide contest for creating sustainability programs after the city’s submission won top honours for efforts…
Melbourne declares itself ‘carbon neutral’
By Paul Hemsley The City of Melbourne has hailed itself as ‘carbon neutral’ after being certified by the Australian Government’s independent carbon offsetting authority Low Carbon Australia through the council’s…
Brothel bribes confront council officers
By Julian Bajkowski The recurring problem of how local and state governments deal with unapproved and illegal brothels has been thrown back into the spotlight after a Victorian court heard…
Yarra pays unemployed to clean streets
By Paul Hemsley The City of Yarra has activated an ambitious project to tackle long-term unemployment and social disadvantage by replacing private cleaning contractors with labour sourced from high-rise public…