This week’s wrap comes to you from Rockhampton and at Beef Week.

To continue tackling the issues of financial sustainability for local government, the LGAQ has released a fact sheet for members to help respond to the challenges.

Does employee advocacy really work? This form of advocacy has been around for a while
now and while social media has made it easier and more accessible, there are some
challenges.

LGAQ has welcomed the Federal Government’s announcement of a reinsurance pool to help reduce insurance costs for North Queensland residents and businesses.

Queensland councils have reiterated their call for a national reinsurance pool and backed targeted disaster mitigation projects to reduce the prohibitive cost of insurance in North Queensland.

All eyes turned to Cairns this week for the two-day Indigenous Leaders Forum (ILF).

Statement from Local Government Association of Queensland CEO Greg Hallam following the lifting of the suppression order in the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission today.

More than 60 Indigenous leaders from Queensland’s 17 First Nations councils have gathered in Cairns this week to discuss common issues affecting their communities.

Governments across the globe have long used different variations of incentives to attract business.

The term digital transformation has been used for several years now to explain how
organisations of varying sizes can use digital technology to create or improve business
processes.

This week’s wrap comes to you, in part, from Gayndah where Mayor Rachel Chambers and her council held one of six town hall meetings to discuss the dire financial situation facing council.

Woorabinda Aboriginal Council is in the discovery stages of a new agricultural project that is set to drive financial sustainability and increased social wellbeing in the community.

Auditor-General highlights councils' financial challenges.

For a day or so last November, Charleville—one of Australia’s most celebrated Outback towns—shed the name it has borne for 135 years and became ‘Kurtsville’.

It is now imperative that Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk move to establish an independent inquiry into the dismissal of one of Queensland's largest councils.