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Back to Episodes$1.5B cost-shift, costly legal disputes, and amalgamation debate reignites
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In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup:
- Moorabool puts its case to VCAT over an EPA clean up order
- A fight to stop a proposed new McDonald’s restaurant in Darebin
- The Victorian Government denies a council’s kangaroo harvesting request
- A new report puts a number on government cost-shifting
- A tragedy in Townsville involving a council waste truck
- The cost of councillor conduct legal disputes revealed in Adelaide
- and the council amalgamation debate reignites in Western Australia
Plus Ballarat Deputy Mayor Cr Ben Taylor reveals the council's approach to collecting an unpopular state government tax.
And yet more local government news from across Australia and beyond.
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