Media releases: 2008
- National Local Roads and Transport Congress
- 13 June 2008
- Speakers from the Federal Government, Local Government and the Opposition at this Congress:
- LOCAL GOVERNMENT WELCOMES COMMITMENT TO TRANSPORT FUNDING
- 21 May 2008
- The President of the Australian Local Government Association, Cr Paul Bell, said that he was pleased that the Federal Government had kept its election commitments on local road funding for 2008-09 and maintained its commitment to funding local roads at announced rates to 2014.
- TAX REVIEW AN OPPORTUNITY FOR EQUITABLE FUNDING FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT
- 21 May 2008
- The President of the Australian Local Government Association, Cr Paul Bell, welcomed the Federal Government's preparedness to tackle inter-governmental financial relations as part of its Tax Review.
- MIXED RESPONSE TO ONE-YEAR EXTENSION OF NATURAL DISASTER MITIGATION PROGRAM
- 21 May 2008
- The President of the Australian Local Government Association, Cr Paul Bell, welcomed the Federal Government's decision to extend the funding for the Natural Disaster Mitigation Program (NDMP) beyond 30 June 2008 but said he was baffled by the decision to extend the program for only a single year.
- ALGA READY TO WORK WITH GOVT ON LOCAL COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE
- 21 May 2008
- The President of the Australian Local Government Association, Cr Paul Bell, has applauded the Federal Government's announcement in tonight's Budget that a Regional and Local Community Infrastructure Program will be established from 2009-10.
- ALGA President urges Government to 'reconsider' cuts to environment program
- 18 March 2008
- ALGA President Cr Paul Bell will fly to Canberra today to make urgent representations to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Peter Garrett, and the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Tony Burke, about the Government's decision to slash funding to the Local Government Natural Resource Management Facilitator Network.
