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In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup:

• Predictions of a messy industrial standoff across eight Melbourne councils
• A super merger of councils not favoured in Melbourne’s southeast
• A regional council’s major budget blackhole
• A long serving Council CEO announces he’s stepping down
• A controversial plan to charge visitors for parking at Sydney beaches
• Pressure to overhaul a CEO performance review process in Queensland
• Councillor resignations in NSW and Western Australia
• A Canadian mayor apologises for false claims about a colleague

plus more local government news from across Australia and beyond

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In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup:

• An ex suburban Melbourne mayor facing sexual assault charges - but his identity cannot be revealed
• The election of a new deputy mayor at Greater Geelong delivers a brotherly leadership team
• Liverpool’s mayor at odds with the NSW Premier over the use of a council venue
• Waverley Council investigating after trees were vandalised by men claiming to be council workers
• Calls for Redland Council’s CEO recruitment process to be independently investigated
• Rate capping shapes up as an election battleground in South Australia
• A councillor resigns, new Council CEO appointments, and yet another monitor appointed in Western Australia

Also today: Stephen Yarwood joins me on Roundup Extra for a conversation about his journey from urban planner to city innovator, with a stint as Adelaide’s Lord Mayor on the way.

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In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup:

• Concerns over council finances persist, as the Victorian government’s Big Build is blamed for a growing sector skills shortage
• A council closes the book on a misconduct investigation
• A call to rename wards with Indigenous names rejected
• Wollongong Council knocks back a debate on alleged police brutality
• Gold Coast Council’s wage offer criticised for being too low
• Mayoral contenders emerging in Tasmania
• A WA Council chief subject to investigation,
• A deputy shire president resigns, and
• in the UK, a four year planning dispute ends in disappointment for actor Martin Clunes.

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:

• Inner Melbourne mayors float a potential merger, and get a smackdown from the Premier
• A metro Council wants to raise rates by 5 per cent, and a rural council sounds the alarm on a spiralling asset maintenance gap
• Mornington Peninsula’s mayor is running for state parliament;
• While a former Albury mayor considers a run at federal parliament
• Sydney overturns controversial new busking rules
• Eyebrows raised at a Queensland council’s spend on overseas travel
• A controversial parking fine system under review in Adelaide
• A WA council takes back its approval of its suspended CEO’s resignation, and
• Australia Day controversies in Perth and Alice Springs

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

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In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup:

• The mayor of one of Victoria’s largest councils suspended for one month
• Wangaratta Council appoints its new CEO
• A proposal to merge two NSW councils fails to get off the ground,
• As a dire warning is issued about the future of the state’s smaller councils
• Tensions rise in Wollongong during a cat curfew debate
• Plans for Australia’s tallest building on the Gold Coast
• A Hobart councillor’s fuel card mistake

Also today - why are an increasing number of local governments funding GPs?

On Roundup Extra, Robert Hicks from Curtin Medical School reveals that WA councils are now spending millions to fill a ‘market failure’ in medical services - and its a growing crisis across the country.

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In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup:

• Wyndham Council demands refund over an "improper land tax grab"
• Indigo Shire shuts down misinformation about a historic carriage collection
• Transparency questions over workshops at Wollongong
• Brisbane moves to sell eight homes over unpaid rates
• Financial sustainability warnings for more South Australian councils
• WA councils may finally get the power to make their own cat laws
• Alice Springs Mayor proposes moving Citizenship Ceremonies away from January 26
• A test of municipal agility in Canada ahead of the Olympic ice hockey final

plus more local government news from across Australia and beyond.

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In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup:

• Excitement turns to disappointment as Bass Coast loses the MotoGP to South Australia
• A costly mistake for a rural Victorian council
• Mornington Peninsula’s Mayor confirms he wants to run for State Parliament
• A proposal to merger two Hunter region councils on the agenda
• Parkes takes a stand on a proposed energy from waste facility
• Questions raised about the appointment process for a Queensland Council CEO
• And Launceston Council drops plans for a 4 day work week

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:

• Success for a community campaign to keep the Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix at Phillip Island
• Manningham Council defends its parking enforcement around an annual festival
• Maribyrnong’s controversial Footscray security trial to end
• 10 NSW Councils apply for increases above next year’s rate peg
• A Queensland council faces a huge fine over illegal dump fires
• A South Australian council loses its fifth CEO in two years
• Plus 200 short-stay properties converted to long term rentals, and counting. Noosa’s success story with Mayor Frank Wilkie on Roundup Extra

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

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In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup:

• A one month suspension for a Southern Grampians councillor
• Predictions Mornington Peninsula Shire’s mayor will enter the race for a seat in State Parliament
• Victorian councils push back on state planning moves
• A Tamworth councillor cleared of vandalism charges
• Contenders emerging for Newcastle’s vacant Lord Mayor position
• A Queensland mayor calls for an investigation into cost overruns
• and Auckland’s mayor pours cold water on a merger proposal

plus more news from across the world of local government in 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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In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup:

• A Bendigo councillor ordered to apologise after a misconduct finding
• Queenscliffe’s new CEO announced
• A call for offshore wind farms to pay their fair share to local communities
• The NSW government set to oversee senior executive appointments at Shoalhaven
• Industrial action disrupts services at Blacktown
• Press scrutiny prompts a major change to Gold Coast Council’s travel policy
• Tasmanian councils keep a watching brief on the introduction of a 4 day work week
• A second WA council to be overseen by a monitor over governance concerns

Plus 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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