ALGA publishes a fortnightly newsletter featuring the latest local government news.
27 Nov 2021
A national campaign to help reduce household food waste has been launched by food rescue group OzHarvest. The Use It Up campaign features a new product innovation, Use It Up...
Australia’s biosecurity defences have been boosted with another 96 more officers assigned to target frontline biosecurity risks. The deployment follows a major Commonwealth recruitment drive for biosecurity officers earlier this...
Disaster assistance has been made available to 25 local government areas in NSW and Queensland affected by severe storms and flooding in early to mide November. The assistance for NSW...
There were 190,800 people working in local government at the end of June 2021, new Bureau of Statistics figures show. This is about 4800 more people than were employed at...
WIN! Advocacy on Federal Assistance Grants Rewarded ALGA welcomes news last week that the Morrison Government has no plans in the short to medium term to review how Financial Assistance...
An updated suite of resources addressing gender inequality and violence against women has been published by Our Watch. Our Watch CEO Patty Kinnersly said the revised evidence-based framework went beyond...
10 Nov 2021
The Future Drought Fund has published its first annual report and is inviting stakeholders to comment on its work to ensure effective future outcomes. The $5 billion fund was established...
Our strong advocacy for greater targeted funding support for local government mitigation projects paid off last week with the release of the guidelines for the local communities component of the...
Guidelines for the community infrastructure funding stream of the $600 million Preparing Australia Program have been published ahead of applications opening in December. Grants of between $20,000 to $10 million...
