A critical lack of federal funding is leaving Queensland with a flood warning system prone to breakdown and patchy coverage

We welcome the renewal of the Partners-In-Government-Agreement by Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.

LGAQ welcomes steps to help address the national housing crisis and an increase in road funding but is disappointed the Federal Budget has failed to reveal an increase in local government funding.

QUEENSLAND councils have sent a strong message to the Albanese Government ahead of its Federal Budget that it must protect and enhance critical liveability programs.

Queensland’s councils have called on the State Government to open up a publicly-funded housing loan scheme to help more people own or build a home in regional and remote communities.

Councils from across Queensland have voted resoundingly to call on the State Government to increase financial support to First Nations councils and their local communities.

The peak body representing Queensland’s 77 councils has welcomed the move by the Queensland Government to investigate the impact of short-term rentals on the housing crisis.

A long-term Townsville community member who has opened her home to the LGBTIQ+ community for emergency housing has been named the winner of the 2022 Alison Woolla Award.

A newspaper covering one of the most remote patches in Queensland has been announced as the 2022 winner of one of the LGAQ Journalism Award.

Housing, roads and funding high on the agenda for councils and their communities at the 126th LGAQ Annual Conference.

The peak body representing Queensland councils has welcomed recommendations to protect the right of elected local government representatives to speak out in support of their local communities.

Queensland’s councils have put forward a series of immediate measures to tackle the statewide housing crisis, as they joined Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s emergency housing round table.

LGAQ Chief Executive Officer Alison Smith said councils have been working hard to help find and deliver solutions to the housing crisis.

LGAQ has welcomed the Federal Government taking the next step towards delivering up to $200 million a year in disaster prevention and resilience funding.

Nominations have opened for the LGAQ’s third annual $5,000 Alison Woolla Memorial Award for local leadership in preventing domestic and family violence.