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Deadlock broken, budget showdown, and an affront to local democracy – #598

  • Council workers march of the Victorian Parliament
  • Mornington Peninsula’s mayoral deadlock broken
  • South Australia’s council elections to be put back five months
  • Albury Council floats a 40 per cent rate increase proposal
  • Newcastle’s quarter of a million dollar fire cleanup bill
  • Rate rises locked in, and a budget showdown, in Queensland
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Broken funding model, bin-top basket spread, and a mayor ghosted – #597

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