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

Local Government News Roundup · Jun 17, 2026 · 16m

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Today on the Local Government News Roundup:

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

and a UK council in political limbo, unable to elect a new leader

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