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Back to Episodes"Game of chicken", concerning trend, and 4 day week first - ft. Jonathon Marsden #544
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In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup:
- Councils in a “game of chicken” with the state government
- Wyndham calls out a spate of online racism
- Concerning trends in local government finances across NSW
- A council chambers closed after an asbestos discovery
- Secret recordings lead to a governance crisis in Cairns
- An Australian first as Launceston gets set to introduce a four day working week
- and Perth’s Lord Mayor responds to the leaking of a damning internal report
All of that and more just ahead on Australia’s number one local government podcast.
Also today - Jonathon Marsden, a former Mayor and two term councillor at Hobsons Bay, joins Chris for a chat as part of the Summer Series
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