Local governments face a familiar challenge of needing to balance tight budgets and rate pressures, with rising community expectations for reliable infrastructure and rapid service delivery. In response, forward-thinking councils are turning to smart city technologies to optimise public assets, streamline maintenance, and improve resource allocation.
At its core, a "smart city" is not about futuristic gimmicks or technology for its own sake. A smart city integrates connected digital technologies, such as sensors and data networks into physical public infrastructure to be more efficient, sustainable and liveable. By equipping assets like drainage networks, bins, vehicles, buildings, and public lighting with Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, councils can gather granular, real-time spatial data. This informs capital works planning, asset life-cycle management, predictive maintenance schedules, and resource allocation, which in turn helps infrastructure work smarter for both residents and businesses.
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he City of Casey has unveiled a new four-year strategy aimed at using technology, innovation and data-driven planning to improve daily life across the municipality.
The newly announced Smart Casey Program 2026–2029 marks the next stage of the council’s broader smart city ambitions, following the completion of the earlier Smart Casey Launchpad initiative, which delivered more than 60 projects over the past four years.
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The Digital Transformation Agency has secured a new five-year Volume Sourcing Agreement on behalf of the Australian Government, reinforcing efforts to modernise digital infrastructure and support long-term technology adoption across government agencies.
The arrangement focuses on ensuring consistent, reliable, secure, and efficient access to essential information and communication technology platforms and online services used throughout the entire Australian public sector.
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Individuals aged 16 to 21 and born in NSW can now download their birth certificates to their mobile phones.
The NSW government has announced the rollout of digital birth certificates for young people born in the state, making it the first Australian jurisdiction to offer the service.
People aged 16 to 21 will be the first cohort able to download their birth certificates directly from the Service NSW app as of today, provided they hold a NSW driver’s license or photo card.
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The Victorian Government has commenced a trial of digital birth certificates in three local government areas.
Minister for Government Services, Danny Pearson said the technology will give parents fast and secure access to their child’s birth certificate on their mobile phone for the first time.
As an alternative to paper certificates, participating parents across Wyndham City Council, City of Casey and Mitchell Shire Council municipalities can now use the new digital birth certificate to enrol children in kindergarten programs.
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