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Back to EpisodesSkills shortage, debate rejections, feral pigs and corellas - #557
Season 6
Episode 557
Published 3 weeks, 4 days ago
Description
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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