A lot of those are really important and given the positive impacts of these for health and wellbeing, are we already paying a lot for preventable diseases and illnesses through our
How are you supporting active communities with any sort of funding that's going to local government?
I suppose that leads into one of the areas of greatest need, particularly for councils, because they bear the brunt of either mitigating or adapting to climate change, among other
Minister, the Office of Local Government's funding has decreased by $654,000 in this interim Budget, which equates to a reduction of $168,000, or 1.6 per cent over the next four...
Planning Minister Felix Ellis has shown exactly why his government’s Development Assessment Panel agenda is so problematic.
The Minister for Planning must categorically rule out using enabling legislation to facilitate the Stony Rise development in Devonport.
I'll just go back to the issue around bullying and harassment in councils. It obviously seems to be on the increase both between elected members, staff to elected members and the general public.
There was considerable concern during the local government reform process about planning powers being stripped from local councils.
Minister, I just wanted to ask a few questions around local government reform. There have been significant concerns around the lack of progress on local government reform in the sector and in the community over many years.
On a similar theme, there is often cost shifting to local government. When we're looking at these, as you've just recognised, more frequent extreme weather events, bushfires, floods, how can the local government sector be assured that they won't be picking up the pieces of the road and infrastructure rebuilds?