Good Governance News

Liesl Tesch, Member for Gosford, has called on the Federal Government to bring back JobKeeper payments. New restrictions for Greater Sydney mean all construction must be paused and non-urgent maintenance, including cleaning services and repair work on residential premises, is to be paused, adding more financial stress for thousands of […]

A voluntary change to accounting practices adopted by the first Central Coast Council Administrator in 2016 was disastrous for the new council and must be examined as part of the Public Inquiry being conducted by Roslyn McCulloch. Chair of the Community Environment Network (CEN), Mr Gary Chestnut, said the group […]

A new report by Jubilee Australia has found that Australia’s export credit agency has given around 80 times more financing to fossil fuels than to renewables. And that trend could continue, as Trade Minister Tehan on 24 June announced forthcoming changes to legislation which could give EFA even more ways […]

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, June Oscar AO, has written an opinion piece for The Australian for NAIDOC Week. Commissioner Oscar spoke about this year’s theme, ‘Heal Country!,’ and the need for a national response to supporting First Nations communities to live on country. “At the beginning […]

The financial failings of Central Coast Council are well and truly on the agenda of the NSW Legislative Assembly this week but will the debate be factual and useful? By Jackie Pearson The NSW Legislative Assembly’s business paper for Tuesday, 4 May includes a Notice of Motion from Mr Adam […]

Central Coast Council’s new Chief Executive Officer, Mr David Farmer, gives his first interview on the Coast to The Point. By Jackie Pearson I’m warned before walking in to my 2:30pm Friday interview with Central Coast Council’s new CEO that it has been a big week and David Farmer is […]