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Back to Episodes“Lower the temperature,” dysfunctional councillors, and a landslide win - #576
Season 6
Episode 576
Published 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Description
In this edition of the Local Government News Roundup:
- a landslide win for Newcastle’s new Lord Mayor
- councillors plan a motion of no-confidence in Wyndham’s mayor
- a $3B election call from a group of regional councils
- a mayor calls for a lowering of the temperature after a family car is firebombed
- a councillor sensationally resigns, branding her colleagues as dysfunctional
- a last minute settlement of an unfair dismissal claim at a Tasmanian council, and
- a first of its kind deepfake detection pilot launched in England ahead of local elections
Plus the Roundup Flashback machine takes us back 12 months to see what was making news this time last year
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