Administration and Management Systems Feature Breaking News • Budget 2008–9: How Local Government has fared 14/05/2008 • Minister announces new Major Cities Unit 01/05/2008 • NT intervention update 30/04/2008 • Albanese ensures the way forward for Women in Local Government 07/04/2008 • Minimal losses to NSW Council investments from sub prime meltdown 03/04/2008 Latest Edition May 2008 Productivity Commission findings Financial sustainability for Local Government involves a tripartite effort: Albanese The Productivity Commission released its final report, ‘Assessing Local Government Revenue Raising Capacity’, on 17 April. This 12 month study into Local Government’s own revenue raising sources resulted from a key recommendation of the Hawker ‘Fair Share’ report tabled in Federal Parliament in November 2003. Read More Editorial: infrastructure on the agenda Speaking at the recent Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV) Asset Management Conference, MAV CEO, Rob Spence, referred delegates to a speech last year by Treasury Head, Ken Henry. He said that the Treasury Head made it clear that Australia must raise its productive capacity to meet demands and that budget monies need to be channelled into productive areas rather than the fluffy, vote catching programs. Read More Toowoomba Australia’s tidiest town for 2008 Queensland’s town of Toowoomba was a major star at the Keep Australia Beautiful Tidy Towns Awards in April, taking out three awards, including the major title, Australia’s tidiest town for 2008. Read More 2020 Summit – now a slow waltz? The Good Oil* by Rod Brown We’ve just had 1,000 passionate citizens pushing their barrows at the 2020 Summit. Fantastic. It has really got the Federal bureaucracy rockin’ – working out how to handle these ideas, particularly Ministers’ desires to accommodate as many ideas as possible. Read More City of Stirling CEO on work experience Since January, City of Stirling CEO, Stuart Jardine, has been working in one of Council’s 149 services for one morning a month to gain a better understanding of what the City’s 1,100 employees do on a daily basis. Read More Full Edition Check out our "What's Happening in Local Government in 2008" annual year planner! Download the 2008 Year Planner. Advertising is now open. For detailed information regarding our rates or deadlines, download our brochure or visit the Advertising web page. 2007 National Awards for Local Government. To view the winners download the the attached pdf. Mac Users: Ctrl+click and select "Download linked file". PC User: Right click and select "Save Target As"

Featured Council Clarence Valley is very much ‘On the Move’, with its economy growing in the last calendar year at a record eight per cent. Much of this growth has been underpinned by the ‘can do’ attitude of the new Clarence Valley Council. Clarence Valley Council was formed in 2004, as a result of forced merging of the former Copmanhurst, Grafton, Maclean and Pristine Waters Councils. Full Details What's On INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC WORKS ENGINEERING AUSTRALIA - NEW SOUTH WALES DIVISION Annual Conference 18–21 May 2008 INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC WORKS ENGINEERING AUSTRALIA - NEW SOUTH WALES DIVISION CivEnEx 22–24 May 2008 LOCAL GOVERNMENT MANAGERS AUSTRALIA National Congress and Expo 25–30 May 2008 SHIRES ASSOCIATION OF NEW SOUTH WALES Annual Conference 2–4 June 2008 AUSTRALIAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION National Local Roads and Transport Congress 15–17 June 2008 LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION OF TASMANIA Annual Conference 18–20 June 2008

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