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Health scare, CEOs terminated, and amalgamations paused – #644

  • Greater Geelong’s deputy mayor on the mend after a mid-meeting medical scare
  • Mornington Peninsula Shire to revisit its aged care exit plan
  • CEO level terminations in New South Wales and Western Australia
  • Ku-ring-gai withstands pressure from protestors over a controversial synthetic turf field project
  • Ipswich Mayor and councillors at loggerheads over media policy
  • A Tasmanian Council orders a review of its response to a dog attack
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