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Send us a text In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup: The final monitors report for Darebin Council has been releasedA new acting CEO announced for Baw Baw CouncilA mayor cleared by an arbiter of misconductWaverley Council commits $100k to support for the Jewish communityA special rate variation to proceed at BallinaA potential name change for Glenn Innes Severn Council deferredA Queensland CEO hits out at media reporting of his Council’s financial positionand the council fraud...
Send us a text In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup: Councils unite against hatred and anti-semitismA second Victorian mayor steps aside, less than a month after being electedSydney’s Lord Mayor hails a huge win for the cityScrutiny over a Council’s general manager performance review processA controversial oval renaming finally settledA CEO hires a private investigator to examine a staff complaintand more of the latest news headlines from around the world of local government.S...
Send us a text In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup Summer Series: Local government leaders respond to the horrific terror attack at Bondi BeachAn Arbiter finds Whittlesea councillor Aidan McLindon engaged in misconductPlus Council CEO appointments and extensionsThe passing of a long time local government leaderGold Coast mayor’s international travel bill comes under scrutinyand more of the latest news headlines from around the world of local government.Support the show The Lo...
Send us a text In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup: Victoria’s mayoral election season is over as the last Council makes a historic decisionAlbury Council’s CEO takes unplanned leave amid financial crisisMaitland Council votes to return historic gaol to NSW GovernmentCity of Perth dysfunction escalatesBass Coast launches petition to secure MotoGP beyond 2026The reason behind a country mayor’s resignation revealedRedland City Mayor's scathing attack leaves officers in tearsA r...
Send us a text In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup: Waverley Council ramps up security for an Bronte Beach Christmas bashPerth scraps a controversial workplace culture investigationMoreton Bay defends bulldozing of homeless camps in a Supreme Court human rights challengeHobsons Bay residents win permanent rights to stay after 2.5-year fight against evictionLatrobe City Council apologises after a cat is mistakenly euthanisedByron Shire urges NSW Government to purchase a former...
Send us a text In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup: A government back down on the controversial Emergency Services levyAlpine Shire’s mayor resigns after less than two weeks in the roleA rural NSW council commences a special rate variation processRowing clubs upset over a Sydney council’s swimming pool planTownsville's new mayor wins his first political testA Gold Coast councillor's raffle ticket purchase on a corporate card sparks policy debateHobart council to shift focus t...
Send us a text In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup: A Merri-bek councillor to be suspended for misconductA councillor accosted in public over a controversial pool decisionThe NSW Council set to fly the Palestinian flagEnvironmental vandalism under investigation by Noosa CouncilA Queensland council’s calls for help with a recent crime spikeA South Australian mayor resigns, effective immediatelyand Perth’s Lord Mayor abandons a controversial workplace culture reviewAll of that ...
Send us a text In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup: A second Victorian council in breach of the rate capHume Council wins VCAT action against illegal earthworksNew figures show the chronic underfunding that is holding back housing developmentA proposal to fund Pride Month activities under fireA council backs away from a special rate variation planThe Queensland government to send an adviser into Redland CouncilThe tragic death of a WA deputy shire president in a bushfireAll o...
Send us a text In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup: Councils get behind a global campaign to end gender-based violenceA disappointing decision to close a community poolA referendum returns an overwhelming vote for deamalgamation of Snowy Valleys CouncilNewcastle’s Deputy Lord Mayor cops criticism from a local MPA council offers a $10,000 reward following a tree vandalism incidentA mayor’s decision to go to the Winter Olympics under fireA Tasmanian mayor survives an attempted ...
Send us a text Today on the Local Government News Roundup: Winners announced in the inaugural Mary Rogers Awards for women in local governmentHepburn Shire calls for urgent action after an attack on its CEOThe latest mayoral election resultsA new LGNSW President electedSydney Council's controversial $20 million planter box contractTownsville’s former mayor found to have lied about his military serviceA councillor resigns in the wake of a strip club scandalUK mayors getting powers to introduce...
Send us a text In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup: A Victorian-first housing initiative launched in FrankstonBallarat refutes claims about a waste processing tenderThe latest mayoral election results from around VictoriaLiverpool’s Mayor on the stand at a public inquiryMore NSW Councils considering special rate variationsA Muswellbrook Shire Council community devastated by the loss of century-old hall;Deficient procurement processes under the microscope at Douglas Shirea pro...
Send us a text In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup: A Council CEO allegedly assaulted in a dispute over planning applicationsA legal review prompts a tender process overhaul for a regional councilVictorian mayoral elections heading into the home stretchThe Sydney Lord Mayor’s housing feud with the Premier escalatesA contentious vote on flags in the chamber at Federation CouncilA proposal to merge two Tasmanian councils on Hobart’s agenda this weekA mayor reprimanded over trea...
Send us a text In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup: Peak bodies sound the alarm over Victoria’s planning overhaulNew landslide erosion measures in Mornington PeninsulaThe Victorian Ombudsman finds government and council failures caused a retirement village flood disasterThe result of the Townsville mayoral election is officialA population boom in the City of Ipswich confirmed by new dataA Hobart councillor takes Federal Court actionA South Australian mayor’s term ended early ...
Send us a text Coming up on the Local Government News Roundup for Wednesday, 19th November: Baw Baw Shire’s new CEO takes leave after breast cancer diagnosisThe Borough of Queenscliffe appoints an acting CEO for three monthsA Greater Bendigo councillor resigns citing work commitmentsMore Victorian councils announce new mayors and deputy mayorsMerri-bek scales back controversial cat curfew proposalNSW Premier meets with western NSW councils on a youth crime responseKu-ring-gai's alternative ho...
Send us a text In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup: A rural mayor on leave after being caught drink driving in a council carFrankston appoints its first female CEOInjecting room reversal at YarraMore mayor and deputy mayor elections decided around VictoriaA councillor working remotely from the other side of the country sparks criticismA sudden GM resignation shocks a NSW councilClarence Valley facing an alleged governance crisisA Christmas lights controversy at a South Austra...
Send us a text In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup: Two Victorian Council CEOs are stepping downMore Victorian mayoral elections resultsA Wyndham councillor embroiled in a diplomatic incidentA call for major public transport upgradesA new Federal inquiry into local government fundingPressure to overturn Cumberland Council’s drag storytime banParramatta won’t appeal a Supreme Court decision overturning a councillor censureGold Coast’s biggest ever development project moving fo...
Send us a text In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup: Mildura launches bold campaign for Melbourne's controversial Yellow Peril sculptureA council’s budget deficit slashed by $290M in under a yearKingston Council asked to consider role statements for its mayor and deputyA Council plan to slash rates for some, while hiking charges for othersA pigeon baiting furore in a NSW townWagga to save a century old bridge from Inland RailTownsville’s waste collection woes, as its mayoral b...
Send us a text In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup: A Whittlesea street faces name change after royal title strippedSurf Coast’s vacant Torquay ward seat filled after second countbackVictorian councils elect new mayorsA ambitious plan to transform car parks into 18-storey apartment towersShoalhaven Councillor appears in court and resigns immediatelyClarence Valley’s Mayor condemns an MP for "misuse of parliamentary privilege"Shellharbour appoints its new CEOA heated cemetery ...
Send us a text In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup: Greater Dandenong mayor rejects independent workplace culture investigationCity of Ballarat admits responsibility for a million dollar failed road repairNorth Sydney Council proposes rate increases up to 54% after previous rejectionGold Coast Council issued enforcement order after 7 million litres of sewage spillsQueensland councils face $40,000 annual cost for weather data previously free from Bureau of MeteorologyFormer To...
Send us a text In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup: A $3M VCAT win for Glen Eira over the Melbourne Racing ClubBattery storage push back in Baw BawA costly infringement mistake in Yarra RangesAged care reforms place new obligations on councillorsNSW’s most controversial councillor suspended for a third timeCouncils take a stand against new meeting rulesDisaster role locked in for Queensland mayorsA staff exodus raises concerns at a Tasmanian counciland a call for compulsory v...
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