Results suggest councils perform best in the public’s view on services to do with activities such as parks and garden maintenance, sporting facilities and heritage protection.

A decade or so ago, I was lucky enough to read a book titled The Wisdom of Crowds by James Suroweicki. His argument was that extracting information from groups and making decisions accordingly is bett

As the Commonwealth‘s primary method of fiscal equalisation to local government, the distribution of Financial Assistance Grants (FA Grants) is a matter of continuing

If campaigning in the 2016 local government elections marked a low point of bad feeling and aggression, then the deterioration of public debate since means that the 2020 elections risk being nothing s

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.

The Ipswich mayoral by-election to be conducted tomorrow has heralded the apogee of dirty gutter level campaigning. How low can it go?

The Bush Councils Convention 2017 was a ripper

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

On the road for most of this week, I have been thinking about the differences between the environment in which local councils operate and the influences that are brought to bear on our federal politic

Leaders from Queensland Treasury and Queensland Insurance Corporation (QIC) have joined LGAQ CEO Greg Hallam on a five-day tour of regional Queensland.

The number 21 carries magic qualities our society. It was for generations the point that young men and women were said to come of age, after a very decent party of course. It's also a biblical number,

The battle to ensure our national Government understands the challenges Queensland’s local communities face and recognises its role in overcoming them never ends.

A new campaign has been launched by the Queensland Water Directorate and the Local Government Association of Queensland (LGAQ) to show Queensland communities how to manage water in all seasons.

I might be biased but it’s always struck me that while state and federal governments can talk about eloquently about innovative solutions to the nation’s challenges _ things like energy, employment, c