With the announcement on Thursday of the reinstated hard border closure with NSW, the LGAQ has issued a public statement urging the State to reimburse border councils for the costs they have borne in helping the Government enact its COVID-19 related border protections.

LGAQ Head of Advocacy Alison Smith is working with her team to prepare a statewide submission for members to address the Federal Government’s 2021 Regional Telecommunications Review.

Hi folks, your Association met with Environment Minister Meaghan Scanlon and her senior departmental and ministerial staff this week.

A cohort of Mayors and Councillors from across Queensland joined with the LGAQ in travelling to Canberra this week to attend the Australian Local Government Association’s National General Assembly.

This week’s State Budget for the 2021-22 year has been revealed as a mixed bag Queensland councils.

It is never lost on us at LGAQ headquarters how our member councils come in all shapes and sizes.

My wrap this week might read at first like a week in the life of LGAQ but, if you read between the lines, you will easily understand that it is truly a glimpse into a week in the life at LGAQ.

State government quarterly meeting update, State Budget update and wins for both Mayor Jane McNamara, and LGAQ and its members.

At its first meeting of the quadrennium in June last year your LGAQ Policy Executive resolved to take a firm stance to push back against both the Crime and Corruption Commission.

Tuesday night’s Federal Budget contained many highlights for local government from the Northern Australia reinsurance pool to digital connectivity and disaster mitigation,

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

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

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.

We’ve had an enormously important and significant decision today in the court in relation to Logan City Council, so I’m combining my normal Friday CEO Wrap with today’s special edition.

It was about this time last year that the majority of our elected members were finally being sworn in after one of the most challenging voting periods in local government election history.