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25.01.2022 "A digital reference framework designed to simplify communication about digital systems in the Australian water sector ... aims to simplify communication about digital systems within businesses and between supply and demand-side entities in the water sector."

25.01.2022 On the back of the Australian Taxation Office and Pagero's insights on #digitaltransformation and #einvoicing at last week's 2020 Local Government Meeting, we're focusing on the practicalities behind how e-invoicing can help councils cost-save and improve operational efficiency while bringing local businesses along with them. It's all in a free #webinar for #localgovernment #finance professionals across our network this week. Sign up now for this Thursday's session.

24.01.2022 Join your local government colleagues in professional and peer-to-peer support for women facing the challenges of COVID-19. Online peer support, exclusive webinars, and a shared pool of resources are available to women working in local government through a new project funded by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinets Office for Women. This is your chance to share your experience and support other women in local government during the pandemic while receiving suppo...rt yourself. From active discussion forums to scholarships building your career resilience, this is an opportunity to future-proof your career. Click through to find out more and sign up today.

23.01.2022 WEBINAR: You're invited to a live and interactive local government webinar on meeting ever-increasing community expectations with smart solutions in the asset management space. This online session for senior local government executives and infrastructure chiefs is free for local government professionals. Join in on Thursday 12 November, 12.30 1.30PM AEDT. Register now. https://lgprofessionalsaustralia.org.au//increasing-servi/

23.01.2022 "Street trees in the Armidale region are about to get some added cloud assistance of the digital variety. Management of the regions urban street trees is being improved by a new cloud-based software system being implemented by Council."

23.01.2022 "Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council and Bellingen Shire Council have been named NSW’s most progressive and innovative councils at the Local Government NSW (LGNSW) Annual Conference."

23.01.2022 "Several years ago, China decided to stop importing contaminated waste. From January 2021, Australian states and territories will begin a phased ban on the export of waste plastic, paper, glass and tyres. The phased ban has underlined the need for more recycling facilities."

22.01.2022 "Plogging, a Swedish fitness trend combining jogging or walking with picking up litter to clean up waterways, is a proposal put forward by one of this years Management Challenge teams. The proposal is a great example of engaging the local community for a common cause in this case removing waste to improve the environment."

22.01.2022 Local government professionals change #careers multiple times within their councils, but horizontal movement doesn’t always translate to vertical movement at the organisation. So how are you fostering the #leadership potential of these experienced staff? The Australasian Management Challenge is simply the most cost effective, enduring and targeted #professionaldevelopment program available for your council’s emerging #localgovernment leaders. Want to know the true value of th...e program so that you can measure up the ROI for your #council and your staff? See the full business case in the link below. It’s been a highly successful program now for over 25 years with a typical roster of over 100 councils from across Australia and New Zealand entering teams each year. Couple that with the number of executive leaders coming out of the program and the stats speak for themselves.

21.01.2022 "We asked those who did not want to work from home their reasons, and one respondent eloquently stated: I hate my house, its cold and the kids are annoying, the dog stinks."

21.01.2022 "Innovators within local government, supported by philanthropy, have brought data and analytics, continuous improvement, human-centered design, and other critical innovation tools to the forefront of government operations. However, whats been missing from this has been a correlating change in the culture surrounding public sector innovation, specifically attitudes toward learning from failure inside and outside of government."

21.01.2022 Following an insightful presentation at last week's 2020 Local Government Meeting, Infrastructure Australia has announced an online training course for professionals working on #infrastructure proposals to be submitted to the independent infrastructure advisor. The course is geared at professionals wanting to submit proposals for inclusion on the Infrastructure Priority List and those seeking Commonwealth funding of $100 million or more. Find out more at the link below.... #localgovernment #funding #training #grants

21.01.2022 Only one week to go until the local government event of the year! This is your last chance to secure your place at the 2020 Local Government Meeting on 1-2 December. The 2020 Local Government Meeting is your full toolkit for recovering from 2020 and building in resilience in 2021. Invest in your council, your staff, and your career. Register now for in-person or online tickets.

20.01.2022 "Current approaches to preventing and responding to sexual harassment in workplaces are inadequate. They typically focus on policies that prohibit sexual harassment and complaint mechanisms for workers to report it. They are reactive, legalistic and often contribute to ongoing (albeit unintended) harm to workers. These approaches, which have remained largely unchanged for decades, have failed to stop rising rates of workplace sexual harassment."

20.01.2022 "We have become accustomed to social distancing, to mask wearing, to designated traffic patterns in grocery stores, but where to next? Theres a certain weariness thats descended on us. We long for a return to normal, but were uncertain that will be possible. And yet we dont really know what the trite and hackneyed phrase new normal means."

20.01.2022 Local Government Professionals Australia is supporting women working in local government through the COVID-19 pandemic with funding made available by the Australian Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet Office for Women. The reality is that rate relief, facility closures, and reduced revenue streams across councils has the potential to fuel job losses, and women disproportionately represent the part-time and casual positions most likely to face these job losses or reduced hours. But thats not the only way women in local government will be affected in the months and years ahead. Were working to strengthen the resilience of women working in local government across Australia in a project tailored to you. Click through to find out more and sign up today.

19.01.2022 "Challenged by the global pandemic, CEOs have made four shifts in the way they lead that hold great promise for both companies and society. Will they build on this unique moment, or return to the ways of the past?"

19.01.2022 "Now more than ever, you are being expected to operate more efficiently with the resources you haveand thats true when it comes to your infrastructure and asset management, too. Budgets have been shrinking while your expensive assets and equipment continue to age and need repairing or replacing. So, how can you balance your asset management needs today while also looking down the road to see what can help you maximize your limited resources, and ultimately, better maximize your budget and more fully serve your community?"

18.01.2022 "Cockburn is the first council in Western Australia to set a zero waste target following the adoption of a Climate Change Strategy 2020-2030 in the City."

18.01.2022 "Policy labs have emerged globally with a mission to support public policy development through innovative solutions. However, it is unclear to what extent policy labs provide new ways of addressing challenges."

18.01.2022 "The Australian Disaster Resilience Index was recently launched by the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre. The interactive Index website provides a snapshot of the capacities for disaster resilience in Australian communities. Understanding these capacities, and how they differ from place to place, will help communities, governments and industry work together to cope with and adapt to natural hazards such as bushfires, floods, storms and earthquakes."

17.01.2022 "Central Coast Council is trialling a kerbside soft plastics recycling scheme on 2,000 residents. Participating residents will recycle soft plastics, such as plastic food wrappers, #plastic bags, cling wrap or any plastic soft enough to be scrunched, in their yellow recycling bins and provide feedback. The soft plastics will be shredded and used in chemical #recycling and energy recovery, and to make other plastic products."

16.01.2022 While our cyber adversaries are becoming more adept, the likelihood and severity of cyber-attacks is also increasing due to our growing dependence on new information technology platforms and interconnected devices and systems.

15.01.2022 "Local government cannot be content with settling into a new normal. The prevalence of natural disasters compounded by the pandemic has made disruption the norm. When adversity becomes normality, innovation is no longer a buzzword but a daily reality in the way we operate. There is opportunity here to grow; again, as we say in the infrastructure side of the business, to build back better."

14.01.2022 "Isaac Regional Council has taken out Queensland’s top planning award for winning the confidence of hostile residents and overcoming a community backlash against its coastal planning scheme."

14.01.2022 LAST CALL: Inform gender research your local government expertise is needed. Closing this Friday 4 September. LG Professionals Australia is working with the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinets Office for Women to learn more about how #women working in local government have been impacted by #COVID19. Contribute to this important research to help councils meet these challenges and prepare for #recovery coming out of the pandemic. You and your #council will have access to the #research findings, you will be making a positive contribution to the #local #government sector, and youll also be in the draw to win one of three $80 gift vouchers as a thank you from our team for supporting this work.

14.01.2022 "Adaptive #leadership means teams and organizations need to constantly assess their actions, recognizing that they will have to continuously iterate and adapt their interventions as they learn more about the outcomes of decisions."

13.01.2022 "This report addresses the dilemma in some way that the rubbish a nation creates in 2020 must be effectively, efficiently and sustainably dealt with by the nation that creates it. No one is going to put up with our garbage anymore. Finding big old holes in the ground to throw it in is a poor reflection of a nation that wishes to present itself as a clever country."

13.01.2022 Councils provide us all with important online services and we must ensure the capability of councils is increasing at the same time as NSW governments capability is increasing.

13.01.2022 "The need for an immediate response to emergencies, coupled with remote work arrangements and pressing demands on our public sector, presents new opportunities and risks for corruption. Experiences in other jurisdictions and overseas also show that changes to the way government services are delivered during times of crisis can create misconduct and corruption risks."

12.01.2022 "He agreed that Australia has made massive advances in the last six months, and should continue to focus on key areas including capabilities and competencies inside government, and the use of technology systems that present data."

12.01.2022 "The COVID-19 crisis demonstrated state and local governments ability to shift on the fly. While work-from-home arrangements were sporadic pre-pandemic, government technology leaders quickly and effectively adapted to the new requirements."

12.01.2022 "Hobsons Bay City Council has taken a big step towards its net zero carbon ambitions with a large-scale roll out of its Virtual Power Plant (VPP) and the installation of new solar panels across more than 40 council-owned buildings."

12.01.2022 Psychological safety is the single most important factor in team performance. Join interactive Masterclasses with real networking and bring leadership insights back to your council teams. Registrations officially open - get in now for September classes starting soon!

12.01.2022 "Nearly all organisations need to refresh and strengthen their approach to #risk #management to be better prepared for the next normal."

12.01.2022 Women have been impacted professionally by COVID-19, particularly financially, but that hit isnt the only stressor impacting their overall or longer-term economic well-being. Were addressing these issues with practical tools to improve the economic security of women working in local government in an exclusive webinar series for participants in a new project. Join the LG Women #Covid Support Project to gain access to exclusive webinars alongside your council peers throughou...t Australia. Want to know more about getting involved? Click through for full details and to join the conversation.

11.01.2022 "Its why we need to make sure theres a vision for our suburbs that ensures that no one is left behind in the pandemic, and that everyone can get ahead in the recovery. Its why we need to listen to voices from the suburbs too to ensure their lived experiences of the pandemic inform our policy responses."

11.01.2022 "Part of the tension in policymaking is captured by the authors sixth insight that "it can be strategically useful to present decisions as evidence-based, but #policy is necessarily political"."

09.01.2022 "The report’s proposed recommendations indicate that when a hazard occurs affected communities are not allowed by the current governance system to take the lead or act, rather, they are mandated to wait for emergency management personnel to lead. Hence, a major shift is required in current recovery and resilience programs to give power and funding to communities to implement their actions in collaboration with local councils, non-government organisations and the private secto...r." Find out more about the Australian Government's response to the Royal Commission's findings directly at the 2020 Local Government Meeting: https://lgprofessionalsaustralia.org.au/the-2020-local-gov/ https://www.rmit.edu.au///bushfire-royal-commission-report

09.01.2022 "Whether its encouraging urban agriculture or converting disused tourism rentals into affordable housing, local authorities from around the world are using the road back to recovery from COVID-19 to build cleaner, greener and better cities."

08.01.2022 Victoria MacKirdy was endorsed as National President of Local Government Professionals Australia at yesterdays National Board meeting. The CEO of South Australian council City of Victor Harbor and long-standing Director on the National Board told us: I am proud to be taking on the role of National President from my fellow Director Mark Crawley and would like to thank him for a year of dedicated stewardship of this organisation and his steadfast prioritising of our colleagues in local government and our communities." Our new Presidents first update comes to you in this afternoons Local Government Update. Make sure youre subscribed - links to sign up available on our website.

08.01.2022 "For regional Australia, digital connectivity and access to services has a major role to play in driving sustained growth. Across our work program, we are trying to draw focus on the need for equitable service delivery and investments that will delivery affordable and quality infrastructure services for all Australians regardless of where they live."

08.01.2022 "A new report from consulting giant PwC has found Australia could also abate 165 million tonnes of carbon pollution each year by fully embracing the 'circular economy', but it requires a holistic approach from governments to move the nation away from its traditional 'linear economy'."

06.01.2022 "Most leaders experience contempt attacks at one time or another, especially during times of crisis, uncertainty, and high stress. Leaders need to be strong and resilient to make it through these periods."

06.01.2022 "A Sydney council is working on two projects to install temporary shared spaces, including parklets, to challenge the way its residents view public space."

06.01.2022 Join Monica Baron of City of Sydney, Mayor Tracey Roberts of City of Wanneroo, Mayor Jerome Laxale GAICD of City of Ryde and LG Professionals Australia Chief Executive Officer Clare Sullivan on Tues 17 Nov as they explore the future of local government after crisis. https://bit.ly/2JOwLAN

06.01.2022 "All states have delegated to local governments significant responsibilities for aspects of managing natural disasters. However, the capability and capacity of local governments to do this work appears to depend on their relative size and the resources available to them and varies across Australia."

06.01.2022 "Employees expect their jobs to bring a significant sense of purpose to their lives. Employers need to help meet this need, or be prepared to lose talent to companies that will." https://www.mckinsey.com//help-your-employees-find-purpose

05.01.2022 "Infrastructure Australia has recently commenced a Regional Strengths and Gaps project, aiming to provide a national view of the diverse strengths and infrastructure gaps facing Australia’s regions, to identify priority areas for future planning and analysis. By identifying these gaps, Infrastructure Australia hopes to encourage governments, industry and the community to come forward with solutions to address these challenges."

05.01.2022 Not yet subscribed? You could be receiving the latest #localgovernment news and listings of programs available to you and your staff in the fortnightly Local Government Update and important announcements in between. It's free and just a click away.

05.01.2022 LG Professionals WA: The Department of Local Government is hosting a #webinar at 1.30pm to 2.30pm today to discuss the recommended designation of child safety officers within existing staff profiles at WA’s local governments. The recommendation has been made as part of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (the Royal Commission). The webinar will assist staff who may be required to draft a response to the recommendation on behalf of their #lo...calgovernment. The State Government has released a discussion paper for the WA local government sector to better understand and respond to this recommendation, and is seeking a formal response to the discussion paper, preferably through council, from local governments by 2 April 2021.

05.01.2022 "But councils warned the proposed rate was not sufficient to allow local governments throughout the state to mitigate against the additional costs incurred as a result of extended drought, bushfires, floods and COVID-19."

04.01.2022 The full program for the 2020 Local Government Meeting has just been announced in a 2-day conference schedule brimming with insights you cannot afford to miss. At half the cost of the usual national conference but with twice the accessibility and a speaker program to rival past years, this is the priority event in our 2020 calendar. Build your #localgovernment organisation back better in 2021 with the most informative learning opportunity of 2020. Sign up now.... https://lgprofessionalsaustralia.org.au/the-2020-local-gov/

03.01.2022 There's still time to reserve your place in this Thursday's local government webinar exploring the state of the infrastructure maintenance industry, where we are today and the upcoming challenges, and exploring sustainable asset management through circular service offering as a way to service the community. Register now.

03.01.2022 2021 Australasian Management Challenge registrations are officially open! Announced at last week’s 2020 Local Government Meeting in Canberra, registrations are now open for the 2021 run of the premier #professionaldevelopment program for #localgovernment's emerging leaders. The Australasian Management Challenge is a simulation-based team building, learning and #networking program using real local government themes the types of issues that a senior #management team in a coun...cil would most likely face. See the Management Challenge in action, hear from council CEOs who have invested in their staff, and directly from the participants who have lived the experience, all over at managementchallenge.com.au Sign up today for the early bird discount! If you’re a smaller council, you can even partner up with a neighbouring council (or instead you may be eligible for a significant subsidy). #managementchallenge #amc #hr #training

03.01.2022 "The approach argues that the prevention of sexual harassment should be a key accountability for Boards, CEOs and Executive teams akin to their occupational health and safety responsibilities. It also recommends people who experience sexual harassment be able to tell their story, in their own words, if and when they choose to."

02.01.2022 "The BIU suggests that making compliance convenient for #publicservants can improve adherence. Agencies can do this by cutting any unnecessary procedures, investing time in making the procedure faster and easier, and monitoring #compliance budgets (the amount of inconvenience people will tolerate before they resort to lower compliance) by regularly asking staff about their perceptions of the costs and benefits of following certain procedures."

02.01.2022 "No one enjoys feeling like they’re stalled or moving backwards professionally. If you view your career decisions as part of a regression, you’re almost certainly going to feel frustrated, angry, or ashamed. Instead, broaden your view: Your job isn’t the only element of your life, and even if you’re temporarily making less progress on that front, you’re advancing other goals that you’ve previously identified as equally or even more important, such as providing for your family economically or spending more time with them."

02.01.2022 If you are still wondering how your council’s digital initiatives measure up to your industry peers there is still time to participate in TechnologyOne’s Local Government Digital Transformation Index survey. By participating you will receive an advance copy of the results. Taking up to 15 minutes to complete, this survey will uncover: Digital transformation advances across the sector Challenges faced in 2020 ... Plans for digital initiatives in 2021 Characteristics of Best-in-Class councils The Index findings will present a reliable reflection of the current state of digital transformation in local government and provide your council with benchmark comparisons. Click through to start the survey.

01.01.2022 "The multiple benefits of efficiency first are hardly understood at all, despite being one of the chief selling points but they require a broader type of cost-benefit analysis or similar assessment to be appreciated."

01.01.2022 "Georges River Council, New South Wales is kick-starting digital creation at a local level, with its libraries now offering a range of state-of-the-art digital technology, both for in-house use and for loan from its freshly minted media lab."