Kevin Best joins Morrison Low
June 2018
Morrison Low is pleased to announce Kevin Best as the new Chair of Morrison Low Holdings. Kevin takes over as Chair from Karen Price at an important time for the company.
Waste planning for a booming tourist town
April 2018
Senior Consultant Alice Grace and Deborah Lind from Queenstown Local District Council recently wrote an article on the challenges, options and decision-making processes behind a bold new scheme tackling Queenstown's waste concerns.
Local Government Magazine
April 2018
A new article by Kitty Waghorn, Waste Asset Manager at Waimakariri District Council, on recent changes to the waste management system was published in LG Magazine.
The Government's new $3 billion Provincial Growth Fund
February 2018
Morrison Low has a long history of supporting Australian councils obtain regional development grants through competitive processes. It is a long established practice there for funding rural and region...
NSW Road Maintenance Council Contracts (RMCC) and National Prequalification for Civil (Road and Bridge) Construction Contracts
December 2017
Feedback from Road Maintenance Council Contracts (RMCC) stakeholders suggests that future engagement models for council road maintenance contracts will require individual councils to be prequalified u...
Joint Organisations
November 2017
It has been a long time coming but Joint Organisations are now here. After the last few years it will be interesting to see how the industry reacts to this latest voluntary program of the Office of Lo...
Cost of Growth
November 2017
Investment in the infrastructure required to support a growing population comes with significant risk for local authorities. Failure to get it right means that ratepayers are funding that growth.
Special Schedule 7 to be completed soon
August 2017
With the preparation of the 2016/17 financial statements well underway it is essential to have reliable and accurate reporting of your organisation’s infrastructure needs. Having a reliable, repeatabl...
Special Schedule 7
June 2017
By now we all appreciate the importance of fully understanding our organisation’s infrastructure needs and the importance of infrastructure reporting via Special Schedule 7. Having a reliable, repeata...
Fixing Country Rail Funding Round Now Open
May 2017
"Fixing Country Rail is a program to fund rail infrastructure enhancement projects that eliminate connectivity constraints on the NSW regional rail network and reduce the cost to market for regional ...