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| 1: | | 2007 | Willoughby City Council (NSW) | Strategic Property Management - Something for Everyone | | Asset Management | Willoughby City Council developed a Property Plan that provides a blueprint for future upgrading, replacement, purchase or sale of all council owned properties. The Plan includes short and long term goals for each property and integrates all other studies and plans of council. It is available electronically to sta... | | | National Award for Excellence |
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| 2: | | 2007 | City of Playford (SA ) | Young Mums & Early Childhood Development | | Health and Wellbeing | The City of Playford became aware that many young families after the birth of their child and before their children went to school, were failing to establish social support structures and failing to access relevant services provided by local agencies. Social isolation was the major cause of poor health and wellbeing... | | | National Award |
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| 3: | | 2007 | City of Playford (SA ) | Young Mums & Early Childhood Development | | Health and Wellbeing | In 2003 the Playford Partnership auspiced by the City of Playford engaged a number agencies including the Para West Adult Campus (PWAC), the Women’s & Children’s Hospital Centre for Health Promotion and Infoxchange to design and implement the ParentingXchange program, a technology based model to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for socially isolated young mums and their children - those of us who are too young too speak for themselves and too isolated to be seen.
Through the work of the Centre for Health Pr... | | | National Award for Merit |
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| 4: | | 2007 | Wagait Shire Council (NT ) | Wagait Beach Community Centre | | Health and Wellbeing | Wagait Beach is isolated from Darwin by 130 km drive or a 15 minute ferry ride, in good weather. The provision of the Community Centre by the council has meant:
• improved health and wellbeing for the local population, as primary health care services are now available locally;
• improved outlook for at-risk groups, such as the aged... | | | National Award for Excellence (Ratepayer base less than 15,000) |
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| 5: | | 2007 | Liverpool Plains Shire Council (NSW) | Tr@ceR - Electronic Document Management System | | Information Technology | Tr@cer was developed ‘in house’ by Liverpool Plains Shire Council's IT Department in conjunction with council users at all levels. It operates with a simple, user friendly interface and opens every time a computer is logged on.
Outdoor staff can also receive do... | | | National Award for Innovation (Ratepayer base less than 15,000) |
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| 6: | | 2007 | Eastern Metropolitan Regional Council (WA ) | Eastern Hills Volunteer Engagement Model- An Extensive Urban Network | | Natural Resource Management | The Shires of Kalamunda and Mundaring, the City of Swan and the Eastern Metropolitan Regional Council are collaborating in natural resource management through their extensive urban network of volunteers and volunteer groups.
Supporting a network of 1,700 bushcare and landcare volunteers with limited council staff and funding ... | | | National Award for Innovation |
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| 7: | | 2006 | Goulburn Mulwaree Council (NSW) | Goulburn - A Water Conservation Community | | Community Water Grants - Water Saving | Australia's first inland city, Goulburn's 22,000 residents have been on water restrictions for almost four years, including more than 18 months on level five restrictions, limiting domestic water use to just 150 litres per person... | | | National Award for Excellence (Ratepayer base less than 15,000) |
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| 8: | | 2006 | Swan Hill Rural City Council (VIC) | Swan Hill Healthy Minds Network | | Health and Well Being | The Swan Hill Community wanted a better understanding about depression and mental illnesses and how it could reduce and prevent suicides in the region.
The Mayor of Sw... | | | National Award for Merit (Ratepayer base less than 15,000) |
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| 9: | | 2006 | Yorke Peninsula District Council (SA ) | Broadbanding in the Disctrict Council of Yorke Peninsula | | Innovation in Regional Development | The District Council of Yorke Peninsula was the Lead Project Proposer in a collaborative partnership to assist in the provision of a broadband service to the community, at a cost equivalent to metropolitan areas, using the latest technologies for maximum coverage.
Wireless communications was identified as providing the most cost effective, flexible, scalable and rapidly deployable technology pro... | | | National Award for Excellence (Ratepayer base less than 15,000) |
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| 10: | | 2006 | Carpentaria Shire Council (QLD) | Normanton Youth Rural Training Program | | Strengthening Indigenous Communities | Normanton is a town of 1500 people in the Gulf of Carpentaria region of Queensland. It has a large Indigenous population which has the inherent problems of many such low socio-economic societies in that the Aboriginal community is ravaged by alcohol, drugs, disfunctional families, unemployment, physical abuse and school absenteeism.
Considering the fact that (a) few youths finish ... | | | National Award for Merit |
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