Quarterly column from LGAQ President and Sunshine Coast Council Mayor Mark Jamieson.

Here are our tips for leveraging your role to help encourage economic growth.

Do we unravel all the years of recycling messages or do councils show leadership and take it to the next level – a new direction? 

The LGAQ is calling for common sense to prevail on new conflict of interest offences

The announcement by the Federal Government to provide drought funding to non-farm businesses and more funding for councils in drought-affected regions is a win for communities and councils.

How the parties respond to the LGAQ;s seven-point plan will draw a picture about the extent to which whoever wins government on 18 May will unlock local community potential

Indigenous housing should be part of the conversation this Federal election.

In fairness, most of the reforms Labor governments have introduced over the years were justified and in the community’s long term interest. This time, however, it is different.

No one has made a convincing argument that forcing changes in voting rules to make councils more like state and federal governments is somehow a good idea.

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A tragic story has shed light on another area of care and public policy that deserves attention, the state of mental health services in rural and remote Australia.

What began as a local grassroots initiative in Bondi Beach during 2010, Garage Sale Trail has grown into a truly national movement supported by 150 councils Australia-wide.

No level of government in Australia is more constantly reminded than local government of its duty to reflect the aspirations of its community.

At the 2018 Indigenous Leaders Forum, we chatted with Lockhart River Aboriginal Shire Council Mayor Wayne Butcher about the importance of indigenous housing funding.

If Queensland local government was listed on the stock exchange, it would be a bigger business in terms of staff numbers and assets under management than the State’s top three public companies