Mackay Regional Council in Queensland is the winner of the 2016 National Award for Excellence in Local Government for their Transforming a Water Business project.

Details of this project and the 2016 Category Winners and highly commended projects are in the 2016 National Awards for Local Government Winners Book.

[Music plays and text appears: National Awards for Local Government. Transforming a Water Business, Mackay Regional Council, QLD, Digital Innovation in Local Government. National Winner]

[Image changes to show David Brooker, Transforming a Water Business, Mackay Regional Council, QLD]

We"ve won the award for change in the water business and we"ve done that through changing the way that we collect data to fundamentally change the cost of delivering services,

Below are video summaries of the 2016 National Winner and the Category Award Winning projects.

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[Image changes to show Elinor Porat, Yarra Young Entrepreneurs Program, City of Yarra, VIC]

The programme is called the Yarra Young Entrepreneur Program and it was a programme that was run in partnership between the Yarra Youth Services team and an economic development unit in the council.