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An opportunity for regional strategic plans

September 2016

Regional collaboration and partnering with the state are foundational platforms of the NSW Government’s proposal to establish Joint Organisations (JO). The Background Paper: Joint Organisations Toward...

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Automating council improvement plans and service reviews

September 2016

Morrison Low is pleased to announce the release of its new electronic process to capture service improvements and seamlessly model these improvements against Councils’ Long Term Financial Plan (LTFP) ...

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It may be shovel ready, but is your project funding ready?

September 2016

It is common for councils to have a list of capital projects which they are unable to fund only from their own budget, and for which external funding is vital for their achievement.  These projects ar...

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On the right course

September 2016

Auckland Council has resolved a series of inter-connected issues by working with consultants Morrison Low to create a set of stormwater project identification guidelines. The guidance document was dev...

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Review of Official Information Act Processes and Management

July 2016

Morrison Low was recently commissioned to undertake a review of a large government agency’s Official Information Act (OIA) processes and management.  This high profile agency was concerned to understa...

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Roads Benchmarking Program for 2016/17 Kicks Off

June 2016

The Yardstick Roads Benchmarking Program for 2016/17 is now open for new and existing members, with the 2015/16 results showing a significant variation in costs between metropolitan and rural councils...

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Webinar on Council Mergers

June 2016

In NSW we are ‘half merged’. Some councils are now into the second month of the operation of their new organisations, others still face uncertainty about their future and still others are unaffected. ...

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New Asset Ratio - Not Helpful

June 2016

There have been some significant changes in infrastructure reporting this year, with an updated Special Schedule 7 (SS7). The changes include the introduction of a new ratio – ‘cost to bring assets to...

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Project Management Frameworks in Local Government

June 2016

The recent round of mergers in NSW has again reinforced the importance of adopting a project management approach to time bound, complex, multidisciplinary projects. Morrison Low has assisted a number ...

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What does effective collaboration really look like?

June 2016

In short, if it feels easy then it’s probably not collaborationCollaboration is part of a continuum of inter-organisational networking. The continuum includes other approaches such as coordination and...

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