Disgruntled councils say the major parties have sidelined local government in their election campaigns.
Tag: federal-election
Next federal election will be fought ‘on local issues,’ say councils
Partnerships with local governments and an overhaul of funding are among 12 ways parties can deliver for local communities, according to a new campaign.
Health brainstorms new IT system for Medicare and aged care payments
Digital Payments Platform.
Calls to slash pre-polling to just three days
The march of early voting.
Is it time for Australia to embrace electronic voting?
Pre-polling must change: expert.
Australian politicians unanimously vote down online voting
Hackers and threats to secrecy of ballots just too much.
Gartner examines post-election IT transitions
By John Kost* A change in the political leadership of government is often a time of high anxiety for public servants. Although it is unlikely that they will lose their…
Salary sacrifice confidence returns to government employees
By Julian Bajkowski Australia’s leading provider of public sector salary packaging services, Smartgroup Investments, believes that business and employee confidence has bounced back following the Federal Election, with government car…
Few takers for post-election pole clean-up
By Julian Bajkowski The federal poll may be done and dusted, but councils and power utilities across Australia now have a new challenge to deal with: how to pull down…
South Australian councils dial into Coalition’s mobile coverage promise
By Paul Hemsley The Local Government Association of South Australia (LGA) wants patchy mobile phone coverage to be a thing of the past after it welcomed the federal Opposition’s plan…