The LGAQ has asked for $10 million from the upcoming state budget to ensure local governments can deliver Natural Resource Management (NRM) programs.

The LGAQ is calling on the State Budget to provide $5 million for the Resilient Rivers Initiative to ensure the protection and management of South East Queensland rivers.

I was humbled this week to accept from Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk a Queensland Great award to the Local Government Association of Queensland.

I want to share with you an exciting new project that the LGAQ has launched. It promises to deliver big benefits for councils and put local government in Queensland at the forefront of driving the ben

The LGAQ has called for the upcoming State Budget to provide a $300 million extension for the Works for Queensland program to ensure the benefits to Queensland communities continue.

Thanks to funding from the Community Resilience Fund the Southern Downs Regional Council has been able to install new fire trails that will be critical in assisting rural fire brigades.

Here’s a story of how an insular mindset is the enemy of innovation.

The LGAQ are campaigning for an additional $20 million for the First Five Forever program; an initiative that aims to bolster the literacy of children aged 0 – 5.

Circular | FOR INFORMATION 2017-011: LGAQ's formal bid to purchase or lease the State's street light network comes to an end.

Circular | FOR INFORMATION 2017-011: LGAQ's formal bid to purchase or lease the State's street light network comes to an end.

Local government will have greater input into how Land Protection funds are spent under a new governance model designed by local government representatives in partnership with the LGAQ and Biosecurity

I love it when a plan works. Believe it or not, it's almost eight years since the LGAQ adopted its customer franchise operating model that created five council segments -SEQ, Coastal, Indigenous, Rura

The man who secured 10, 000 megalitres of water for Toowoomba in the midst of a severe drought is retiring from 40 years in local government.

In its submission to the Productivity Commission the LGAQ says water reform needs a greater vision if government and industry are going to meet community water needs in a changing environment.

At the close of a week marked with some significant financial wins for local governments