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Today's guest on the Local Government News Roundup's Well Travelled Executive Series is Alastair Dawson, an experienced council CEO and university sector executive, who most recently served as interim CEO of Livingstone Shire Council in Queensland.

Alastair joins Chris to discuss his unique career path, in which he has occasionally courted controversy.

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Today's guest on the Local Government News Roundup's Well Travelled Executive Series John Nevins, whose career in public service spans nearly four decades.

For more than 10 years, he was the CEO of Kingston City Council in Melbourne.

John reflects on the early years of Council amalgamations in Victoria, the changes to the sector, and how he dealt with a major health scare along the way.

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In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup:

• A let down for councils in the latest Federal Budget
• A new CEO for Strathbogie
• Melbourne’s Keys to the City process under review
• Local residents look for council help to stop high rise apartments
• The exciting new art installation coming to Mildura
• A controversial pool ID policy up for review
• Calls for a crackdown on illegal vape stores
• A council incentive to keep a local butcher shop open
• and UK Councils on notice from the PM to publish their pothole progress

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In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup:

• E-scooter operators bail on the City of Yarra
• Hepburn Shire denies its rate increase proposal is linked to a failed development project
• A northeast community concerned about biosecurity waste
• A call for a delay to the glass recycling bin rollout
• Startling bullying claims about a NSW council
• Back to the drawing board for a GM recruitment process
• Plus a Queensland CEO stepping down
• Launceston Council calls in the Police, and
• Perth’s Lord Mayor bids farewell

and more local government news from across Australia and beyond.

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In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup:

• A controversial local law to be reviewed
• Rail announcements hailed by local councils
• A councillor levels accusations at colleagues
• Buloke’s mayor confident a cancelled festival will return
• A NSW councillor under renewed fire for ongoing behaviour
• A call for an ICAC investigation into a councillor’s new role
• Share bike companies on notice from a Sydney council
• The resignation of a long-serving mayor
• A WA Council CEO appointment; and
• And another NZ council to leave the sector’s peak body

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In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup:

• The Mayor of Whittlesea calls for the resignation of the Council’s CEO and monitors
• A call for patience from the Mayor of Greater Dandenong
• Hepburn Shire responds to the leaking of the Rex report
• A local government first strategy to tackle anti-semitism
• A General Manager calls time
• An apology from a Gold Coast councillor
• Queensland councils sound the alarm over rising insurance costs
• Hobart pressing ahead with a controversial bike lane project
• And uncertainty continues at a WA council unable to make major decisions

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In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup:

• The shock leak of a confidential report into a longstanding issue at Hepburn Shire
• A showdown looms as Whittlesea’s mayoral crisis drags on
• A spate of recycling truck fires prompts more warnings from councils
• A regional NSW council’s cash flow warning
• An urgent call for an investigation into financial concerns at a regional airport
• Perth councils push back on the use of NDAs and cost-shifting

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

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In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup:

• Banned from Council premises - Whittlesea’s mayoral crisis deepens
• Safety concerns force another Council to meet online
• Hepburn Shire to apply for a higher rate cap
• Yarra lifts e-scooter fees by 400 percent
• A CEO resigns after an extraordinary Council meeting
• A councillor censured for comments on social media
• A new partnership agreement for state and local government in Queensland
• Adelaide campaigns for 50 cent bus fares, and
• Critics take aim at the UK Government’s new planning laws

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In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup:

• Threats of violence push a Council meeting online
• New alliances to tackle common issues
• MAV board election results are in
• Six NSW councils given an ultimatum on development assessment times
• The councillors pushing for spending reviews at their councils
• Attention turns to clean up across cyclone impacted communities
• Plus a new CEO appointment, a lord mayor elected to parliament, and a unanimous vote of no confidence in an embattled US mayor

Also today, Liz Joldeski from Mainstreet Australia on the link between place making and community safety.

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In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup:

• Councillors embroiled in a Parliamentary shutdown
• A cancelled funding agreement under review
• IPART considers a public hearing on a controversial rate increase proposal
• A call to relax restrictions on dogs in pubs
• A council sets the record straight on property sales due to rate arrears
• A court ruling puts four seats on Adelaide City Council in jeopardy
• And sweeping changes for UK councils that could see them stripped of planning powers

Plus Chris is joined by Alice Jeffcott from Market Creations Agency to talk about how they are helping councils across Western Australia and beyond meet new obligations for live streaming and public registers.

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