Local Buy
Joshua Brown currently holds the position of Managing Director and CEO at Brown & Crawford Advisory since November 2024 and serves as General Counsel and Head of Compliance/Finance at Local Buy Pty Ltd from July 2021. Additionally, Joshua is the General Manager for Commercial and Business Operations at Impack Advertising since March 2025, and the Chief Legal Officer at QPS Steel Fab from September 2024. Previous roles include General Counsel at Robotic Steel Fab Pty Ltd and Contract Administrator at The University of Queensland. With a background in insurance and compliance oversight across various sectors, Joshua has also contributed to Suncorp Group and Vero in roles focused on underwriting and compliance analysis. Joshua holds a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice and a Bachelor's Degree in Law from the Queensland University of Technology.
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Local Buy
All councils want to support their local businesses, but council procurement is costly, takes time, needs to manage fraud and corruption risks, and must meet Queensland Audit Office standards. Local Buy helps council procurement meet legislative, reputation and compliance needs, simplifying the process by connecting councils to pre-qualified local Queensland suppliers, big and small. This saves time and money reducing councils need to tender, advertise and prepare contracts. Councils were asking for help with procurement, which is why the LGAQ created Local Buy in 2001. Access to Local Buy is a valuable component of LGAQ membership. The profits from Local Buy are returned each year to the LGAQ and invested to help keep council membership fees low. Local Buy simplifies the procurement process for councils and government entities across Queensland through these arrangements which save money through aggregated buying (discounts through bulk purchasing) and save time by reducing the cost of going to market for the purchasing of goods and services. While councils and government entities are not legally bound to use Local Buy, purchasers using Local Buy contractual arrangements are fully compliant with the Local Government Regulation 2012.