This week’s Weekly CEO Wrap features commentary on the appointment of two independent legal counsel to assist the Parliamentary CCC inquiry, news about Council Champions, LGAQ subscriptions and the Bush Councils Convention, and finally a shout-out to NAIDOC Week.

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.

The focus now must equally turn to the economy and providing stimulus to both protect and create jobs and to help mitigate the impacts of this evolving pandemic.

Here’s the story of the 123rd LGAQ annual conference in Cairns by the numbers: 700 delegates, observers and exhibitors, 85 motions carried (16 unanimously), three motions withdrawn,...

There are 101 good reasons to be at the LGAQ Annual Conference in Cairns next week.

This week I signed off on $5.1 million of Local Government Mutual special dividends being paid to our member councils.

The KPMG report on how grant reforms should be pursued, completed during the last term of government, remains the blueprint - the gold standard if you like.

Queensland local councils are much more than roads, rates and rubbish. They provide opportunities for our communities to come together and build pride in who they are and what they stand for.

Over the past 12 months, our beautiful state has had to deal with fire, flood, drought and now more fire, each event close to unprecedented in severity and scope.

If local government needed any more reminders of the importance of basing decisions on strong, reliable data there were plenty of them at last week’s Waste Forum in Brisbane.

A matter of days out from the federal election it is pleasing to see issues that really matter to local communities are finding their way into the campaign narrative.

Next year will mark 100 years since the LGAQ became the industrial voice of local government in Queensland, a fact of which we are mightily proud.