The policy has been reviewed with minor grammatical changes made to clauses 4.3 and 4.4.

Background

The Policy applies to the establishment and maintenance of all Friendship and Sister City relationships. This Policy applies to all Council officials, to Council’s current Sister City and Friendship city agreements and to all future agreements.

Any new Friendship and Sister City relationships will be reviewed by Council’s Sister City Committee and officially adopted by Council.

We have a current Sister City with Minami Alps in Yamanashi Japan which was established in established on 9 October 1992 and Friendship City agreement with Ohrid in North Macedonia established on 21 July 2014.

Have your say

The 2025 review of the Friendship and Sister City Policy is open for community comment from Tuesday 1 July until Tuesday 29 July 2025. The draft Policy may be viewed:

  1. In the electronic Document Library on this page
  2. At Council’s Customer Service Centres, between 8.30am and 4.30pm Monday to Friday

Feedback can be provided on the draft Policy through:

  1. Completing an Online Submission Form (below)
  2. Emailing it directly to council@qprc.nsw.gov.au with the subject title Friendship and Sister City Policy
  3. Hand writing your submission and delivering it to Council's Customer Service Centres
  4. Posting your submission to PO Box 90, Queanbeyan NSW 2620
Only written submissions will be considered and these must be received by Council before Tuesday 29 July 2025. Please note that any submissions received may be included in the final report to Council.