The ABC reports that the Local Government Association is calling on the Northern Territory Government to release a confidential report into a computerised business system used in super shires.
The system was introduced last year when local councils were amalgamated into super shires. It is used for such things as financial reports and budgeting. The association's Northern Territory president, Kerry Moir, says the new system was brought in without proper planning or training and super shires are now struggling to do their job.
Ms Moir says the Department of Local Government and Housing needs to openly accept the report and act on its findings. "A lot of the council operating needs are not being met. Probably the most worrying thing is that for many of them, they've been unable to get accurate financial statements which means that they don't know what they've got to spend on a variety of things."
Is this perhaps the same software to which the following press release dated 28 February 2008 refers? If not, which software is it?
"Technology One Limited has been awarded the contract to supply and install state of the art business systems across the eight shires. Local Government Minister Rob Knight today said the business systems were part of the job of getting on with fixing governance and service delivery problems in the bush."
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