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- Minister throws a cat amongst the pigeons
- LGS continues to lead the way on its sustainable property portfolio
- Gosford apologises for their conga line of incompetents
- The chickens come home to roost at Blayney
- It's now okay to call someone petite at Canterbury but be careful who you call a ****, a ******* or particularly a ******* ****
- John Skene recruits our 1300th member
- But wait, there is a happy note from Taree
- Panel goes gaga trying to separate the hopeless and the nasty judging the 2011 HR awards
- Destination 2036: Government turns a blind eye to local government reform
- BPB Roadshow starts next month
- When is an offensive word not an offensive word?
- Protecting your entitlements Part 2: If it's a condition of employment, it's a condition of employment
- Protecting your entitlements Part 1: We stop Wingecarribee removing a "condition of employment" car from a member
- Like a dog with a bone, he's back
- Increases in compulsory super remind us those Coalition politicians still really hate industry super funds
- A great opportunity for a female (but not boring) EHO
- Tsunami of new blood and nothing boring in 2012 depa election results
- Happy anniversary, Barry
- Fair Work Australia rejects urine testing again and sets other important guidelines
- Random testing finds no evidence of illegal drugs - anti-drug zealots now on medication
- NSW Government targets sick and injured workers
- Rewarding meeting with BPB - despite loitering
- Andrew and Jody nominated to the NSW Food Forum
- IRC directs Hunter Councils to provide information in Alcohol and Other Drugs dispute
- "Appalling" cuts to workers compensation could affect everyone
- LGS wins Property Council Award for the best sustainable development of an existing building
- It's official, urine testing is unacceptable
- DLG risks human rights and ILO Convention breaches with proposed new Code of Conduct
- Government removes workers comp for home to work travel
- Some clarification on members wanting help with issues that predate their membership
- Some early entries in our "Worst HR in Local Government" annual awards
- “'Public nuisance' evicted from meeting” We’ll have more mayors like this bloke, thanks
- New planning system for NSW all about certainty for developers
- Try not to get sacked over the next three weeks
- Hold the phone, how good is the technology the Council supplies you?
- Dilettantes dabble with your future - Could Destination 2036 get any worse?
- Danger danger, warning warning as novices gain control in September elections
- How much investigation is enough?
- Your Superannuation Fund is Triple-A Rated
- Bring in the clowns, the BPB thinks you can approve applications or certify compliance for members of your family!
- Amalgamation hysteria: the sky isn’t falling
- Anyone can be a Mayor, and look what they can do
- December depaNews – Special Edition
- 2013, time to play golf in our Union Picnic Day Golf Day
- Another GM bites the dust after a dustup with the mayor
- Now, that is something to smile about, Gary!
- Jeeze Craig, you’d have to be joking
- Liverpool even makes the BPB look reasonable
- Get a job at Liverpool and get Farooqed
- GM and Mayor tell everyone to get Farooqed
- Hard to choose, clowns or dunces, but it was all the Board’s fault
- Ballina goes feral – it’s time to bring back the pineapple cake
- Do you want your ex to get your super when you die?
- “The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the road of life after you have shown him the way” – Confucius
- Pace of reform agenda picks up
- Nambucca remarries first wife - after humiliating and expensive divorce
- Will the real Brad Hazzard please stand up
- Yes, in your backyard
- Looks like an early favourite for our Worst HR Award
- North Sydney presented with depa Cup
- Special issue: Time is running out to do something about the White Paper
- We have to make some observations about the Federal election
- How not to get sacked
- Federal Court finds there is an implied term of “confidence and trust” in the employment relationship
- John and Stephen are innocent!
- 80 jobs lost at Newcastle as GM takes an axe to the organisation
- Sack this Council - there is nothing fair about Fairfield Part 2
- “Robbo departs super … not with a whimper, but a bang”
- Is that the time? 2014 Award discussions to start next month
- Don’t try this at work
- 2014 State Award negotiations off and running
- Don’t tell us, we don’t want to know
- Planning review stalled in the Upper House for three months - what could possibly go wrong now?
- 2013 depa HR Awards
- Local Government Super remains AAA rated and Australia’s number one fund
- While we are all enjoying summer…
- What’s happened to local government reform?
- Has the Government got what it takes to save local government?
- Uh oh, they’re back …
- You don’t have to be a member, but what would you do if …
- Doing other work? What does your Council do about section 353?
- Union Picnic Day golf day cancelled this year
- We have a new Office Manager starting on Monday 3 March
- Election results declared
- Excited about April Fools’ Day?
- O’Farrell/Christian Democrats deal to reduce smut and innuendo behind removal of BPB’s Neil Cocks and Margaret Hole
- O’Farrell/Shooters and Fishers deal to cull more ferals
- Bigot Brandis moves to protect the right to be a bigot
- Ex HSU officials call for investigation into depa’s finances
- Farooq gets Farooqed
- Barry Farooqs himself
- Goodbye Don, hello Paul
- The three last reasons why you would remain a member of AIBS have gone
- Fearless leaders copy everyone - Local Government Managers becomes Local Government Professionals! (But nothing changes)
- We have an offer for the 2014 State Award
- Everyone loves the 2014 State Award - including the President of the IRC
- LGMA poseurs fail to derail Award
- It’s not just the State Award that is committed to making councils provide family friendly and flexible work
- What’s your Council doing about the Award’s health and well-being provision?
- An early favourite for our 2014 HR Award
- Shock, horror, more bad news on the quality of private certifiers
- Wagga Wagga stumbles with dangerous precedents
- What's the score at Shoalhaven?
- What Penrith did next
- “Less people with pencils and more people digging up roads”
- Local Government Poseurs Association still frightened of the new State Award
- Apology to Andrew Crakanthorp
- How’s Penrith going?
- Uh oh, Local Government Super is about to do something really bad
- Oh no, Local Government Super goes pro-nuclear
- Sam Byrne is appointed as our new director on the LGS Board
- Goodbye Gough and thanks
- NSW Premier seizes all the pencils
- We don't care about Peter Hurst
- Confusing messages from LGS
- Shoalhaven dispute resolved but the Council suffers lasting damage
- depa offers a prize in 2015
- Anyone for golf?
- 2014 HR Awards to be announced next month
- How hard is HR?
- depa’s awards for the Worst HR in Local Government
- 2014 depa award for the worst HR in local government
- And that, with great relief, is the end of the year...
- How hard is HR? Part 2
- Don’t forget our commitment to helping councils provide family friendly work
- Anyone for golf 2?
- Fit for the Future, or some other F word?
- Special: Welcome to 2015 issue, three disputes already this year but we won't mention *********
- Tamworth and GM Paul Bennett humiliated in IRC
- From one GM with poor HR to another...
- And now back to the 19th century when mothers knew their place
- Who wouldn’t like to hit a ball into this beautiful lake?
- NSW election on Saturday 28 March
- Election Special
- “New South Wales is open for business” Baird Liberal/Coalition Government commits to dramatic initiatives
- Government bans the words “bad for the budget”
- The Government clarifies the sale of Poles and Wires
- South Africa stripped of World Cup placing
- John Howard sees silver lining after Malcolm Fraser’s death
- Fit for the Future
- Got the boss's job at last and don’t need us anymore?
- Tamworth brings in the big guns
- Old blokes collapse and let Mum keep working part-time
- Review of the BPB
- We are updating our rules
- Reviewing our rules is much more exciting than watching paint dry
- A message to the Minister and the Office of Local Government
- We drag the dawdlers at Sydney City into the modern world (and watch them waste a good employee)
- depa’s submission to the Legislative Council Local Government Enquiry
- We hate it when members disappear – and it wastes our time too
- Has Local Government Super dumped uranium and nuclear yet?
- Uh oh, look out!
- Why is the Office of Local Government protecting Jilly Gibson? Or is the Minister thinking a few moves ahead?
- Next month …
- Tamworth GM drops off on removing the nine day fortnight from existing staff
- And what about one or two good news stories?
- Any action from people we rely upon to properly regulate the industry?
- In such a hostile world, who wouldn’t want a guardian angel?
- Mid-Western GM sacks two directors - and one of them was ours
- Better than Nostradamus
- Mixed reception to IPART Report
- Anyone there?
- NSW Government to shut down Industrial Relations Commission
- We file section 106 for the unfair sacking at Mid-Western
- Something to put a smile on your faces - we may have found local government’s dumbest
- Time is ticking away
- But some good news too - use this template if your Council wants to give you five years protection against forced redundancy
- Here comes the knockout punch
- Councillors behaving badly - bans on at Parramatta
- Chinese hackers embarrass LGNSW and LGMA
- IRC survives to be dismantled another day
- HR awards issue out on Tuesday
- Who has the worst HR in local government in 2015?
- Fit for the Future
- We settle our section 106 with Mid-Western
- Anyone for golf?
- Shoalhaven wins Worst HR in Local Government Award 2015
- Ex Planning Minister attacks extensions to exempt and complying development
- LGNSW and the three unions meet about IPART recommendation 30 and protecting senior staff
- Some great news for Catherine
- “Come on Barry, give me a cuddle”
- Council amalgamations provide “a good night out” for old folks
- 2016 elections for the Committee of Management
- We extend our legal services to members
- 2016 depa elections delivers four new brooms
- PIA NSW did what?
- NSW Government announces broad expansion of exempt and complying development
- Now we can all be miners, NSW Government announces
- Happy birthday, Mike
- You’d have to be a mug not to join
- Early elections, bring back local democracy!
- Senior staff jobs go in amalgamations and the hero is Viv the Vivisector
- Employment Matters Working Party clarifies the protections under the Act
- Not so fast, the dilettantes and dabblers are still at it
- Food Regulation Forum
- “What have the Romans ever done for us?”
- Mid-Western Council receives ICAC report
- Government to dismantle Industrial Relations Commission of NSW
- Sick of politicians? We are …
- Get ready, we’re about to start negotiating the 2017 State Award
- Government picks up the pace on dismantling IRC
- What are “workplace representatives” for on Consultative Committees?
- We stop Government’s secret processes in merged councils
- Government dismantles Industrial Relations Commission
- Who would have thought! Private certifiers need better regulation …
- A facade, is always just a facade...
- Sydney mishandles asbestos contamination in Town Hall House
- Ignore Henny Penny, there has been progress in State Award negotiations
- BPB gets their fingers out on what should happen with PINs
- depa’s prestigious HR Awards will be announced next month
- The Ascension marks the death of the historic IRC
- We give OLG’s Employment Reference Group another chance
- Are things going any better at Sydney City with their asbestos contamination?
- Who has the worst HR in local government this year?
- Who has the worst HR in local government in 2016?
- And that’s pretty much the end of the year for us...
- The sharks are circling
- Uh oh ...
- What would Mike Baird have done?
- Next month ...
- It’s hard not to feel sorry for Gladys
- LGNSW backflips on decades of cooperation
- OLG forced to state the bleeding obvious on employment protection
- Ex-Mayor of Hurstville exits with his tail between his legs
- Cripes, where was the compassion?
- LGS restores uranium nuclear screening
- A Tale of Two Cities
- The Hills Shire embraces commitment to health and wellbeing in 2017 Enterprise Agreement
- Nine days to go …
- We don’t like being gagged and we pull the pin on the EMRG
- Courts nail clumsy and secretive handling of Council mergers
- We accept LGNSW offer for a new State Award
- Uh oh, …
- Do yourself a favour
- Enough is enough – it’s time to cut councillors out of development assessment
- I’ve got a Deed of Release - lessons to be learned from Amber Harrison
- Get your own ideas!
- “Like a dog returning to its vomit…”
- Look out, the ******** and ********* might be back...
- Are you okay?
- depa's responsibility to look after our members’ social interests without discrimination
- Like getting blood from a stone...
- And members respond brilliantly
- What is this thing called, love*?
- Andrew Spooner resigns as President
- BPB nails idiots at Griffith City Council
- LGS agrees it’s their responsibility, and they will fix it
- We still don’t know what this thing is
- Had a look at the Draft Code of Conduct yet?
- And look out for this...
- Is that the time?
- LGNSW CEO Donna Rygate proudly launches their game changer
- Code of Conduct
- depa elections next year
- depaNews HR awards will be out Wednesday or Thursday...
- Tweed Shire is the most hazardous workplace for depa members in NSW
- Well, that’s it for us
- Welcome back
- Okay, we don’t mind a challenge, but …
- Going down like dominoes at Tweed
- Some people think they can get away with anything...
- Government decides to move the IRC out of the Sydney CBD
- How to not lose your leaseback car
- 2018 depa elections – lucky Lord Buckethead isn’t a member
- Electoral Commission declares 2018 depa elections
- Former Canterbury demonstrates to ICAC why councillors should be removed from development assessment
- We may find ourselves in an unusual position
- Government sends IRC to Parramatta
- You’ve moved house or Council? Don’t let it be a secret
- Robbo's pearls...
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