Amidst the flurry of letters and meetings that the almost 90 policy motions passed at the LGAQ annual conference has generated, I am reminded that it will soon be a year since I returned to work for t

The LGAQ is seeking urgent member views on two significant pieces of legislation introduced into Parliament by the Queensland Government during the week of 9 October 2017.

It was a week of big announcements at our Annual Conference in Gladstone. There were so many amazing moments during the three days...and we had the national spotlight on us, too.

We gather here in the beautiful city of Gladstone at a testing time for our sector of government. The challenges that face local councils today are of a size and nature that would have been unimaginab

The State Government has passed legislation that will see an independent assessor introduced to deal with council complaints.

The annual leading tourism industry forum bringing industry and government together to find ways to grow the tourism industry and create jobs.

From Monday, Queensland’s local government family descends on Gladstone for the LGAQ’s 121st Annual Conference. We are aiming for the star of the show to be the launch of a path breaking initiative an

Mayors like the late Butch Lenton, who sadly passed away last Sunday, are the reason I'm still working at the LGAQ after 25 years. Leaders like Butch are my inspiration and drive me to want to come to

One of the most common inquiries I get as I travel around the State visiting member councils is about Financial Assistance Grants, or FA Grants as they are known in the local government sector.

The LGAQ has appointed Paul Cranch as a Senior Trade and Investment Advisor. In a first for the LGAQ, Paul will work to improve trade and investment attraction strategies for councils and their region

Behavioural economics, choice architecture, nudge theory. The lexicon of academia can sound a little daunting. Doubly so to those in local government whose work to better service their community does

The LGAQ is calling for grants to public libraries to be calculated using information from the Australian Bureau of Statistics rather than Census data - ABS estimate of Queensland’s resident populatio

As we head towards the LGAQ’s 121st annual conference, it’s time for some reflection about how we go about representing the State’s local government sector as its peak body. We tend to move at the spe

Never let it be said that the local government sector in Queensland waits around for others to decide what is best practice in terms of transparency and accountability.

In its submission to the Department of Communications and Arts the LGAQ have said there is little evidence to support the proposed changes presented in the telecommunications carrier and immunities co