Making news in the Roundup for 23rd May 2021, the largest ever emissions reduction project by local government in Australia; the state budget delivers for the Fix the Calder campaign; the call for a name change for a Western Australian council; the latest senior executive movements in the sector, and lots more around the world of local government.
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1. Victorian Energy Collaboration
2. State budget funds Fix the Calder
3. Brimbank CEO retiring
4. Melbourne to spend $60M on parks
5. $2 million Maryborough Railway Station project
6. Baw Baw welcomes school funding
7. New ALGA CEO announced
8. Georges River finalists in 6 NSW Awards categories; List of finalists
9. New GM for Wingecarribee Shire; Hunters Hill GM resigns
10. Gold Coast pipeline project under way
11. Fraser Coast new civic centre site investigations
12. Name change proposed for City of Stirling
13. New Darwin Civic Centre concept released
14. Gendered language removed in Salem, Massachusetts
15. UK local road funding falls