Controversial appointment, corruption perceptions, and rate pegs
Description
In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup:
- Perceptions of corruption run high in Victorian local government
- New cat confinement laws come into effect in Melbourne
- NSW Council rate pegs revealed for next year
- Shoalhaven’s controversial CEO appointment
- A milestone for a local government employment program
- Townsville Council chooses postal voting for its mayoral by-election
- And England’s councillors to be allowed back into the sector’s pension scheme
Also today, Cr Moira Berry, Chair of Peri Urban Councils Victoria is here with a plea to state and federal governments for support for housing development in some of the state’s rapidly growing but potentially overlooked council areas.
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