A cohort of Mayors and Councillors from across Queensland joined with the LGAQ in travelling to Canberra this week to attend the Australian Local Government Association’s National General Assembly.

This week’s State Budget for the 2021-22 year has been revealed as a mixed bag Queensland councils.

It is never lost on us at LGAQ headquarters how our member councils come in all shapes and sizes.

My wrap this week might read at first like a week in the life of LGAQ but, if you read between the lines, you will easily understand that it is truly a glimpse into a week in the life at LGAQ.

State government quarterly meeting update, State Budget update and wins for both Mayor Jane McNamara, and LGAQ and its members.

At its first meeting of the quadrennium in June last year your LGAQ Policy Executive resolved to take a firm stance to push back against both the Crime and Corruption Commission.

Tuesday night’s Federal Budget contained many highlights for local government from the Northern Australia reinsurance pool to digital connectivity and disaster mitigation,

This week’s wrap comes to you from Rockhampton and at Beef Week.

All eyes turned to Cairns this week for the two-day Indigenous Leaders Forum (ILF).

This week’s wrap comes to you, in part, from Gayndah where Mayor Rachel Chambers and her council held one of six town hall meetings to discuss the dire financial situation facing council.

We’ve had an enormously important and significant decision today in the court in relation to Logan City Council, so I’m combining my normal Friday CEO Wrap with today’s special edition.

It was about this time last year that the majority of our elected members were finally being sworn in after one of the most challenging voting periods in local government election history.

Head of Advocacy Alison Smith brings you this week’s wrap from Canberra where she is attending ALGA's board meeting alongside Mayors Matt Burnett and Jack Dempsey.

This coming August marks the quasquicentennial of your Association, the LGAQ.

This week it was my pleasure to join fellow LGAQ staff on a four-day, six-council trip to Far North Queensland.