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Back to EpisodesChaotic meeting, rates boycott call, and a hiring freeze
Season 5
Episode 426
Published 1 year, 1 month ago
Description
In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup:
- Chaotic scenes as another council considers a major rate increase
- And a former PM’s extraordinary call to boycott council rates
- A council’s move to ensure political neutrality
- Competing petitions on a name change proposal in Dandenong
- A hiring freeze for one of the country’s largest councils
- Dysfunction brings a North Queensland council to a minister’s attention
- Adelaide Council under fire over green space and parking plans
- and UK councillors step aside as a messaging scandal widens
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