The Local Government Association of Queensland (LGAQ) says it will make a submission to the Productivity Commission's inquiry into natural disaster funding. The Federal Government has asked the ...

Queensland's industrial relations (IR) system will be set back a century if new laws for the public sector are passed later this year, the Local Government Association of Queensland (LGAQ) says. The ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Mackay. Followed categories will be added to My News. Justice Duncan McMeekin ruled it was illegal for the Mackay Regional Council to charge investors an extra ...

The campaign aims to reinstate the level of untied financial assistance grants distributed to local communities to at least 1 per cent of taxation revenue. As of last year, councils only received 0.55 ...

ROCKHAMPTON mayor Brad Carter says he's pleased the LGAQ has refused to sign an agreement with the State Government and Queensland Resources Council. The Sustainable Resource Communities Policy, which ...

Former Cairns MP and now Division 2 councillor Rob Pyne and Lyn Elizabeth O’Connor appeared in the Cairns District Court on Wednesday, defending a defamation suit brought against them by Mr Hallam. Mr ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. South-East Queensland councils will have to take developers "on trust" for the State Government's new tick-the-box planning scheme to ...

Mr Hallam is suing former MP and current Cairns Regional Council councillor Rob Pyne and Tablelands resident Lyn Elizabeth O’Connor over a series of allegedly defamatory Facebook posts from 2017 which ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Ipswich. Followed categories will be added to My News. Head of the Local Government Association of Queensland Greg Hallam says his organisation will "draw a line ...

The call came in response to a Greens proposal to give councils the power to increase the charges levied on developers to fund pedestrian crossings, parks, flood mitigation, public and active ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The peak representative body for local councils in Queensland will be appealing against the state government law that bans them from ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Gladstone. Followed categories will be added to My News. The campaign aims to reinstate the level of untied financial assistance grants distributed to local ...