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Local government could also do more to help with the cost of living | Letter
Cllr Lucy Shaw says councils could take up many policies to help, including more support for rooftop solar installationsYour editorial is right that the government could be doing more to help with the cost of living (The Guardian view on Britain’s coming energy shock: mini-measures won’t suffice, 22 May). That extends to local government, too. Renewable energy projects, from the industrial scale right down to rooftops, can be scuppered locally even if there is national support.
Fierce opposition to disaster recovery funding changes in Queensland
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Outback councils look to US oil state to advise on renewables success
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Critical infrastructure in Western Sydney missing as funding plan comes to ends
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Melbourne councils struggling to clean up rising amounts of illegal dumping
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Qld government contemplates ditching anti-junk-mail measures
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Acting SA electoral commissioner calls for council election delay
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Dynamics in a Low-Rank Separable Field Cellular Automaton
arXiv:2606.08983v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Complex collective dynamics in cellular automata are usually associated with local-neighborhood combinatorics, yet it remains unclear whether long-lived dynamical organization requires such explicit local interaction structure. Here, we introduce a Separable-Field Cellular Automaton (SFCA), a normalized-field cellular automaton in which local neighbor counting is replaced by a rank-one-like row-column field. Each cell is updated according to...