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On the Local Government News Roundup today:

• Resignations trigger a quorum crisis in WA
• A Council CEO’s surprise career move
• Chapel Street Traders drop their legal challenge against Stonnington Council
• Peak groups call the Victorian state budget a missed opportunity
• Newcastle’s new Lord Mayor confirmed
• Industrial action to hit the Western Downs
• A mayor targeted by a nasty graffiti attack
• and a councillor’s viral spray against his own council

Plus more news from across the world of local government in Australia and beyond.

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Coming up today:

• Marsh wins Nepean, triggering a by-election on the Mornington Peninsula
• Wyndham’s leadership crisis deepens, with councillor boycotts, and now a resignation
• A troubled Sydney pool development is heading to court
• Tempers flare in North Queensland, as the local government minister resists calls to step in
• A funding gap leaving country towns high and dry
• Cessnock announces its new General Manager
• A Tasmanian deputy mayor in the hunt for a seat in state Parliament

All of that and more just ahead on Australia’s number one local government podcast.

Plus the Roundup flashback machine takes us back to this week in 2021.

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The Local Government News Roundup is brought to you by the Victorian Local Governance Association, the national broadcaster on all things local government; with support from Symphony3 - simple, connected customer experiences; and Rath Engineering Development - smarter local government systems built from real on-the-ground experience.

Links for stories referenced in the podcast can be found in the transcript, or by visiting the Roundup website.

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Coming up today:

• A councillor’s dramatic mid-meeting resignation goes viral
• A monitor appointed after a troubling psychosocial investigation report
• Bass Coast picks a new mayoral team
• A funding feud erupts between a Council and a local MP
• Sydney considering a ban on short-stay rentals
• Mudgee stadium lands a naming rights deal
• A mayor blasts water buyback profiteering
• Inside Launceston’s failed four day work week plan
• Plus a new CEO appointment and much more

On Australia's #1 podcast for local government news and information.

Support the show

The Local Government News Roundup is brought to you by the Victorian Local Governance Association, the national broadcaster on all things local government; with support from Symphony3 - simple, connected customer experiences; and Rath Engineering Development - smarter local government systems built from real on-the-ground experience.

Links for stories referenced in the podcast can be found in the transcript, or by visiting the Roundup website.

Support the Roundup by becoming a subscriber for around $5 per month. ($3 USD) Click here to subscribe now.