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Parliament aspirations? But will ‘absence make the heart grow fonder’?
As per our commitment to keep you updated in concise and simple terms, we deliver the next instalment in our Local Government Reform Alerts.
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Local Government Reform — A Different Message
29 September 2021 As our readers are, by now, fully aware, the amendments being made to the Local Government Act…
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The ICAC, the OPI and the Ombudsman — the changing landscape
There is no doubt that 2021 has proven to be a year of constant and significant law reform and late last week, Parliament did not disappoint. Continuing this trend, significant…
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Social Media Moderation — an urgent legal necessity!
The subject matter of our LG Alert – Defamation and social media – what does the ‘Voller Case’ mean for you? on 9 July 2019, was, subsequently, the subject of…
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Lockdown measures Gazetted for planning applications
A question that we are being asked with increasing frequency since the snap lockdown was announced, is ‘what will happen to applications for planning consent that require public notification?’
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Legal Verification — Declaration of Rates 2021/2022
Some councils have already utilised our legal verification service, so it is timely to provide the details more broadly.
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New Practice Directions to note
It’s a busy time with the new PDI framework! Since our last LG Alert on Planning, Development and Infrastructure Act 2016 matters, Practice Directions 3, 8, 9, 11 and 12…
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Just in time — numerous legislative changes made ahead of tomorrow’s full and final implementation of the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Act 2016
Various amendments to facilitate the full and final commencement of the PDI Act tomorrow and which are relevant to property, governance and rating officers were Gazetted today.