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31 Aug 2010

MTfJ: Tackling youth unemployment needs national approach say mayors

The Mayors Taskforce for Jobs is calling for a national youth transitions strategy and action plan to more strongly support youth employment.

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30 Aug 2010

Auckland CCO Boards appointments announced (beehive.govt.nz)

The list of directors and chairs for the Auckland Council's new council controlled organisations was agreed to by Cabinet last week, Minister for Local Government Rodney Hide said.

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26 Aug 2010

Local and central government to work together on infrastructure

Stronger partnerships between local and central government on infrastructure issues will benefit communities and regions says Local Government New Zealand.

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16 Aug 2010

New publication from the Office of the Auditor-General on Performance Measures

Since reform in 1989 one of the challenges to corporate planners and nearly everyone else who works in local government has been how to define meaningful performance measures to by which to measure the effectiveness of council services.

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16 Aug 2010

Women in Politics - a timely report from Oz

In order to mark 2010 as the year for women in local government the Australian Local Government Association has published a report entitled "Women in Politics", a particularly relevant topic given that this is also election year in New Zealand.

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2 Aug 2010

LGOL: One-stop candidate portal a first

A one stop online shop for candidates in this year's local body elections has been launched by Local Government Online.

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