After defeating Ipswich Mayoral Candidate Paul Tully last Saturday, new Ipswich Mayor Antoniolli said one of his first priorities will be opening the books for a council audit

This week marked the 80th anniversary of the first formal council meeting held on Masig Island in 1937.

Wujal Wujal and Ayton will see an increase in mobile coverage and bandwidth after the state government this week committed $247, 000 to upgrading telecommunications infrastructure in the communities.

It’s often said that working in council is like being part of one big local government ‘family’, and in some cases it really does run in the genes.

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The Palaszczuk Government has released $60 million in funding through the Local Government Grants and Subsidies Program.

The QLD state government has announced it will invest half a million dollars into the South-east corner’s waterways, riverbanks and grazing land.

The Federal Government has acquired a further 28 gigalitres of water in the Condamine-Balonne River system as part of its Northern Basin recovery target.

Seven councils in Central Western Queensland have banded together to create Australia’s largest free wi-fi for travellers – the Outback Telegraph.

Entrepreneurialism, collaboration and disruption were the hot topics at this year’s LGAQ Bush Councils Convention in historic Charters Towers from 9-11 August.

A strategic partnership between the LGAQ and the Department of Education and Training means nine remote indigenous community airports are now CASA (Civil Aviation safety Authority) compliant.

LGAQ President and Sunshine Coast Council Mayor Mark Jamieson has been named the University of Southern Queensland Community Service Alumnus of the year for his career in publishing, local government

Councils in the Murray Darling catchment have expressed a unanimous view that there should be no further water buybacks as part of the system’s management.

LGAQ CEO Greg Hallam delivers an opening address to the 2017 Bush Councils Convention in Charters Towers on behalf of LGAQ President Mayor Mark Jamieson.