The Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government (ACELG) has published this paper that compares the various approaches in each Australian jurisdiction toward implementing local government reforms, with a particular look at requirements for strategic and corporate planning and reporting.

The Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government (ACLEG), with input from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, has released this report outlining how local governments can more effectively utilise demographic and other population data into planning and decision-making processes.

This snapshot examines the nearly 30 review and reform initiatives taking place in jurisdictions across Australasia between February and March 2013, continuing a period of change and reform in local government which dates back at least two decades. The research report, Review of Current local Government Reform Processes in Australia and New Zealand, is co-published...

Not all councils that need more revenue have the capacity to generate it from their own-sources. If more grant funds are not likely to become available then consideration needs to be given to allocating a greater share of the existing grant fund pools to councils that have less capacity to assist themselves.

The preliminary Learning in Local Government program inventory prepared by ACELG in 2010 included a profile of existing vocational and higher education courses relevant to some of the key skills shortage areas in local government. The identified skills shortage areas were civil engineering, urban planning, building surveying and environmental health. Post-graduate university courses that contained...