For General distribution - re-posting encouraged! Dear friends, This is the second e-mail notification of the VLGA web site update delivered directly to your mail box, courtesy of VLGA volunteer web-master. Please let me know if you do not wish to receive it or conversely - if you wish to subscribe! I hope you have all had a pleasant break and wish you all a Very Happy and Prosperous New Year!! Despite the holiday season Local Government hasn't had much of a break, it's business as usual on that front, .........so apart from what you read in the daily's - there's more information, put together by VLGA members and dedicated staff, at: http://www.vicnet.net.au/~viclga/ If you have visited recently - and want to find out what the latest additions are - go straight to: http://www.vicnet.net.au/~viclga/new.html If you've not been before- try the site map to find you way around, at: http://www.vicnet.net.au/~viclga/sitemap.html There are some interesting developments on the Human Services (PHACS) front, see: http://www.vicnet.net.au/~viclga/PHACSUpdate.html and: http://www.vicnet.net.au/~viclga/Letter.html A number of gatherings to deal with some of the upcoming issues are in the pipeline, for more information see the 'Events' page at: http://www.vicnet.net.au/~viclga/ComingUp.html Y2K InfoShare No.2, VLGA update can be found at: http://www.vicnet.net.au/~viclga/InfoShare2.html “PARTNERSHIPS AND POLITICAL CONTEXT” - an Opening address by Adjunct Professor Hayden Raysmith - To the VLGA - Stegley Foundation PARTNERSHIPS PROJECT conference has been added. If you missed the conference this insightful introduction may give you a bit of a taste of what it was about......read it at: http://www.vicnet.net.au/~viclga/PSinPC.html NEWS: Darebin City Council is the 24th Council to (re)join VLGA!!! Looking for 25th now :) see: http://www.vicnet.net.au/~viclga/links.html And lastly: if you are VLGA member - don't forget the Planning Day on 30th of January!! http://www.vicnet.net.au/~viclga/NF3.html Your feedback is most welcome, any time: http://www.vicnet.net.au/~viclga/feedback.html Regards Snez Plunkett, VLGA web master end ============== Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html The Year 2000 Bug - An Urgent Sustainability Issue http://www.peg.apc.org/~psutton/grin-y2k.htm