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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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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.

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Coming up today:

• Wyndham’s mayor digs in, as the council passes a no-confidence motion
• A Tasmanian mayor drops a political bombshell
• Gold Coast claims success with its homelessness crackdown
• Victorian councils challenge the state on roads funding and planning rules
• Major projects under review as costs sky-rocket
• A trip to Dublin draws criticism for a Sydney council
• The full cost of Broken Hill’s legal troubles revealed
• And resignation threats in Tasmania over the use of Acknowledgements of Country

plus more local government news from across Australia and beyond.

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Coming up today on the Local Government News Roundup:

• A shock Council CEO resignation
• A two month suspension for a Hobart councillor
• A mayor calls out disrespect after a disrupted council meeting
• A council’s special business levy challenged at VCAT
• More councils reveal the impact of fuel costs on service delivery
• The cost of a crackdown on homelessness
• E-scooters and e-bikes pose challenges for more councils
• Plus acting CEO appointments and election results

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In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup:

• A Fair Work ruling set to hit Councils’ bottom lines
• a corruption inquiry announced
• a councillor censured and facing disqualification
• while another is under investigation over a violent social media post
• industrial action escalates across Melbourne
• Hawkesbury Council standing up to bullies
• a multi-million dollar headache for a Sydney council
• an extension for the City of Perth’s monitor
• a council unveils its pitch for a new name
• a call for an urgent police surge in Townsville
• Police investigating a serious incident involving a New Zealand councillor

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

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In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup:

• a landslide win for Newcastle’s new Lord Mayor
• councillors plan a motion of no-confidence in Wyndham’s mayor
• a $3B election call from a group of regional councils
• a mayor calls for a lowering of the temperature after a family car is firebombed
• a councillor sensationally resigns, branding her colleagues as dysfunctional
• a last minute settlement of an unfair dismissal claim at a Tasmanian council, and
• a first of its kind deepfake detection pilot launched in England ahead of local elections

Plus the Roundup Flashback machine takes us back 12 months to see what was making news this time last year

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In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup:

• A string of CEO resignations, affecting four states
• A $15M court decision with sector-wide implications
• Industrial action at some Melbourne councils escalates
• Police are called, as Liverpool’s by-election descends into chaos
• The council pausing green waste collections to save on fuel
• A Councillor steps down after months of controversy
• A costly cleanup after a run of vandalism in Kiama
• Queensland councils staring into a financial black hole
• And scrutiny on a Council’s interstate fact finding trip

plus much more local government news from across Australia and beyond.

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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.

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