President's column
ALGA has launched an advocacy website dedicated to the campaign to restore indexation to Financial Assistance Grants (FAGs) in this year's Federal Budget, and we urgently need your assistance.
The campaign website provides a powerful advocacy tool for all councils to contact their federal representatives and seek their support to ensure indexation is restored in the upcoming 2017-18 Federal Budget - and you can complete it in less than five minutes.
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Laura Tingle confirmed for NGA 2017
The Australian Financial Review's political editor, Laura Tingle, will address the National General Assembly of Local Government (NGA) to be held on 18 - 21 June in Canberra.
Laura has reported politics from the Canberra press gallery for almost thirty years, after beginning her career in Sydney reporting on the financial markets and economics. She is the author of Chasing the Future - a book about the recession of the early 1990s
New ALGA campaign website to restore indexation of Financial Assistance Grants
ALGA has launched a new campaign website to restore indexation of Financial Assistance Grants (FAGs).
The simple website allows councils to join ALGA's campaign by contacting their local Federal MPs via the site. With a template already written up, this powerful contribution from councils will take less than five minutes.
Mayor David O'Loughlin, ALGA President, has urged all councils to get behind the campaign.
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