With the news that more regional papers are cutting jobs, it’s time we took seriously the damaging effects of losing local ...

Residents across 128 councils in NSW can now cast their vote for their local government elections as pre-polling begins ...

With the NSW council election happening this Saturday, here's everything you need to know about when, where, and how to vote.

Questions are being raised about what a democratic process means as 14 local government areas in NSW appoint candidates to office without elections because of a lack of nominees.

Hundreds of millions of dollars are pouring into NSW’s “grand dame” of the Northern Rivers. Leading community figures say ...

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Former mining town Wittenoom in Western Australia was wiped from official maps in the early 2000's because it's so deadly.

In New Zealand, safeguards are provided by an existing act of parliament and a separate, complementary policy that recognises ...

Voters in one state are headed to the polls as an election period marked by chaos and disaster comes to an end.

Affordable housing is a key election battleground as the Miles government has promised 53,500 social homes by 2046. The ...

"Christopher Luxon’s government has declared war on nature and is stripping away essential protections for water quality in Aotearoa, but that should not stop responsible local governments from ...