Government grants are shifting, now focusing on real-world impact, learning, and accountability across Australia’s public ...

Kathy Richardson is executive director of the Institute of Grants Management, a sibling to SmartyGrants, an Our Community ...

Productivity delivers numbers. Prosperity delivers meaning. The public sector is uniquely placed to cultivate both.

From budget constraints to the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, increasing expectations and workforce crises, there is ...

Artificial intelligence could help local councils deal with 'technical debt' and outdated systems — if they can find a way to ...

Local government amalgamations were once seen as the golden ticket for making councils more financially viable. But when ...

Councils are in a hard place. They’re being called on to deliver non-traditional services, yet they’re revenue-constrained ...

When state and federal governments use local governments to implement their own agendas, councils are less able to respond to ...

As roles and boundaries shift, local councils are using a wide range of forums and strategies to influence state and federal ...

“A lot of funding is [currently] 50-50, where a council might have to put in 50% of the funding themselves for the grant to ...

From visionary reformers to pragmatic fixers, ministers come in types. Public servants who calibrate their approach to them ...

Local governments in 2025 are at a crossroads. No longer confined to “roads, rates and rubbish”, councils are increasingly ...