Media releases: 2020
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Australia’s premier local roads conference being held in Wagga Wagga NSW this week has been expanded to address 2020’s biggest events – the Black Summer bushfires and the Covid-19 pandemic. The profound impacts these two disasters have had on local communities will be a major focus of the expanded two-day event being convened by the+
Posted 15 November, 2020 -
Sydney City Councillor Linda Scott has been elected President of the Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) – the national voice of local government representing over 500 councils nationwide. Councillor Scott was elected to the position unopposed at ALGA’s annual general meeting on Friday – and will succeed David O’Loughlin, whose second (and maximum) two-term stint+
Posted 13 November, 2020 -
Further Commonwealth support for local government in the Federal Budget will help deliver the targeted short-term stimulus critical to national economic recovery and growth. Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) President David O’Loughlin commended Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s announcement of a further $1 billion investment in the local roads and community infrastructure as a vote of confidence+
Posted 6 October, 2020 -
The Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) has welcomed new Federal Government support for regional and remote communities hard-hit by Covid-19, drought, and last summer’s bushfires. Today’s announcements by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development Michael McCormack include two new initiatives – a Regional Recovery Partnerships Program and Resilient Regional Leaders+
Posted 5 October, 2020 -
The Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) is partnering with the Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia (IPWEA) to address the country’s $30 billion national local government infrastructure backlog. The two organisations will work together – and with local councils around the country – to produce the “National State of the Assets” (NSoA) report providing detailed+
Posted 2 July, 2020 -
Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) has long called for a $200 million Commonwealth Disaster Mitigation Fund to be established, the same amount nominated by the Australian Productivity Commission in its most recent advice on disaster mitigation. “Not only is the Federal Government’s current commitment of only $26.1 million a year clearly inadequate in this light,+
Posted 30 June, 2020 -
The Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) says planned national federation reforms announced today are a lost opportunity to drive jobs growth and economic reform at the local level. “The National Cabinet is continuing with a broader remit than the health response for which it was first established, and ALGA, as the national voice of Local+
Posted 29 May, 2020 -
The Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) has welcomed the Federal Government’s $500 million economic stimulus fund for councils as an important boost for urban and regional economies battered by Covid-19 restrictions and the Black Summer bushfires. “Coupled with the Morrison Government’s confirmation they will be pulling forward 50 per cent of our major grant stream,+
Posted 22 May, 2020 -
The Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) has endorsed a set of principles to guide changes to planning systems during the COVID-19 pandemics. The agreement was reached between ALGA, the State and Territory Planning Ministers, and the Federal Minister for Population, Cities and Urban Infrastructure, Alan Tudge, at a meeting on Friday. This agreement sets out+
Posted 20 April, 2020 -
Council curfews not to blame for empty supermarket shelves Councils actively work to support the supermarket chains As Australians continue to reel from the sight of empty supermarket shelves the community is looking for someone to blame. Local government curfews regulating when supermarkets can have goods delivered have come in for criticism. “This criticism of local governments is+
Posted 20 March, 2020 -
Stimulus funding for councils would support local jobs Local government stands ready to partner with the Prime Minister in time of crisis While the nation’s health experts tackle the virus crisis head on, local businesses and jobs are grinding to a halt – and Councils want to fill the gaps to keep our economy healthy+
Posted 19 March, 2020