Local Government Association of Queensland

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🎨Arts, festivals and local events that bring people together.
🎶Councils make communities feel like home.
🎭Councils are your every day.
💡Find out more about your every day here https://t.co/5UCP0Ibbrm
#YourEveryDay

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🚨Media release alert

Essential user status would ensure councils can keep delivering essential services to their communities, should the current fuel crisis hit harder.

Read the media release 👉 https://t.co/fuNOeHarQu

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You might not think about your council every day.
But your council is thinking about you.

Find out more https://t.co/5UCP0Ibbrm

#YourEveryDay

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🐶 It turns out dogs are Queenslanders' best friends!
🐾 Our councils collectively manage around 500,000 pet registrations annually, providing animal management services like shelters and ranger patrols using the fees.
💡 Find out more here https://t.co/5UCP0Ibbrm
#YourEveryDay

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A bin tax won’t shrink your household’s landfill.

What would?

Tailored local solutions. Investment in recycling infrastructure. Standards for producers.

7 in 10 Queenslanders agree.

Do you?

Find out more 👉 https://t.co/GDnUhG0spH

#BinTheTax

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🚨 Media release alert https://t.co/pn0pdhfvFt

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Richmond Shire Council Mayor John Wharton knows the value of roads.

In remote Queensland, a sealed road can mean the difference between life and death.

That’s why greater investment through the Queensland Government’s Transport Infrastructure Development Scheme (TIDS) matters.

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🏙️ Councils make today happen, while planning for tomorrow.
🌅 Councils are your every day.
💡 Find out more about your every day here https://t.co/5UCP0Ibbrm
#YourEveryDay

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When road construction costs rise, it’s local communities that are hit the hardest. Mayor Jason Wendt shares what stronger investment in Queensland roads through the State Government’s Transport Infrastructure Development Scheme would deliver for the Somerset region.

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🌳 Did you know, councils maintain your parks, waterways, playgrounds, libraries and sporting fields?

🏡 Councils are your every day.

💡 Find out more about your every day here https://t.co/5UCP0Ibbrm

#YourEveryDay

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Who makes today happen in your community? 👀
(Clue: you experience their work every day.)
Discover the campaign shining a light on councils across Queensland.
👉 Click to read https://t.co/OqOIRwA0Sg

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At least part of your journey to work takes place on a council path or road.

Queensland councils are responsible for the state's most extensive road portfolio, managing 150,000km of roads that are the backbone for daily travel for millions of people.

https://t.co/5UCP0Ibbrm

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🚨Read our latest media release https://t.co/6nyekMHVFM

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You don’t think about council when you’re kicking a ball on the weekend, walking the dog, cooling off by the creek or training after work — but that’s kind of the point.
Councils are your every day.
#AustralianParksWeek
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Here is what councils need in the June State Budget to continue to provide the services that shape the every day lives of Queenslanders https://t.co/v9v7kiPT2A
LGAQ President Mayor Matt Burnett explains 💬 #YourEveryday

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Our network of pipes and sewers could wrap around the world – twice!

Queensland councils manage more than 82,000km of water and sewerage mains, providing clean drinking water and taking away your waste.

Find out more about your every day here https://t.co/5UCP0Ibbrm

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Cr Kate Peddle, Mayor of Flinders Shire Council, puts it plainly:

“I think any financial support that regional councils can get is absolutely vital. ... So I would really implore the government to consider increasing the TIDS funding.”

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🗼We help recycle a mountain of waste - around 165 Eiffel Towers' worth - each year.

🗑️ And on the home front, council operators pick up about 700,000 domestic bins every working day across Queensland.

👉 Learn more https://t.co/5UCP0Ibbrm

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We’re for your every day. 

Learn more:  https://t.co/T4F7vUI0R7 

#YourEveryDay

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Councils are with you, for you, every day.
They make today happen, while planning for tomorrow.

Explore: https://t.co/T4F7vUI0R7 

#YourEveryDay