As you know, here at the LGAQ we have a drought strategy, a water security strategy and today I’d like to talk about our plan for the reef – our 7th wonder of the world and a true Queensland icon.

It hasn’t been an easy week once again for many across our fire and drought-ravaged state.

A big call out and thumbs up to the magnificent mayors, councillors, local council disaster coordinators, police, volunteer firefighters, and Queensland Fire and Emergency Service (QFES) staff.

Queensland councils are concerned inadequate investment in the Queensland Invasive Plants and Animals Strategy 2018-2023 could see it fail to deliver.

This week’s drought funding announcement from the Federal Government came as heartening news to communities across Queensland.

According to the venerable Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Queensland councils cracked $1 billion on capital and recurrent spending on sport and recreation.

Data provided by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows that Queensland councils spent just over $1 billion on sports and recreation for the 2017-18 financial year.

The LGAQ is calling on state and federal governments to commit to $500 million over five years of dedicated funding.

The state’s best and most innovative public works projects have been celebrated at the Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia Queensland’s (IPWEAQ) annual awards.

As many of you would be aware the major media companies on Monday launched their Your Right to Know campaign in all forms of the media.

Local councils have thanked the Palaszczuk Government for dropping plans to introduce compulsory preferential voting

A series of stories on the monsoon floods that devastated north west Queensland in February this year has won veteran journalist John Andersen the 2019 LGAQ Bean Lockyer Ticehurst award.

It has been 123 years since the first LGAQ Annual Conference in Brisbane, the minutes of which I’ve read many a time. And no, despite my long service at the LGAQ, I wasn’t present at that first meetin

This week the focus is on the Palaszczuk Government’s announcement on implementing its grants review process and the LGAQ survey of elected members and CEOs on the personal and organisational impacts

The Local Government Association of Queensland is calling for entries for the 2019 Bean Lockyer Ticehurst Award for Excellence in Regional Journalism, offering a cash prize of $15,000.