ALGA publishes a fortnightly newsletter featuring the latest local government news.
20 Dec 2018
The Australian Government this week welcomed the release of Infrastructure Australia's 15-year Australian Infrastructure Plan, which highlighted the important role of local government in boosting freight productivity to enable more efficient...
The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Disability Reform Council (DRC) have made a number of important decisions to strengthen overall disability reform to support people with disability, their families and...
ALGA has this week renewed its call for a Commonwealth-funded program to bring community infrastructure back up to scratch and promote economic development opportunities. Council-owned and -managed community infrastructure includes...
DISCUSSION of Closing the Gap in socio-economic outcomes for Indigenous Australians bookended the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting in Canberra on 9 February. Before the COAG meeting, there was...
More than 116,000 people in Australia were classified as homeless on Census night 2016. This represents an increase of 4.6 per cent (11,000 people) since the 2011 Census, according to...
There was no mandate for the Tasmanian Government to take TasWater from Local Government control, owner councils said this week. Tasmania is unique in Australia in that its 29 Local...
In December 2017, the Government announced that it would develop a new Universal Service Guarantee (USG) for telecommunications to ensure all premises in Australia, regardless of their location, have access...
Interested councils have been invited to make a submission to the recently-established Senate Select Committee into the obesity epidemic in Australia. The committee will inquire into and report on the...
Nominations are now open for the 2018 Australian Human Rights Awards. The Commission this year has introduced a new award category to recognise a local, state, territory or federal government...
