Award winners, and a "grossly unfair"situation - #522

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Today on the Local Government News Roundup:

• Winners announced in the inaugural Mary Rogers Awards for women in local government
• Hepburn Shire calls for urgent action after an attack on its CEO
• The latest mayoral election results
• A new LGNSW President elected
• Sydney Council's controversial $20 million planter box contract
• Townsville’s former mayor found to have lied about his military service
• A councillor resigns in the wake of a strip club scandal
• UK mayors getting powers to introduce tourist taxes
• And warnings the NZ government's local government restructure threatens Treaty obligations

Plus more news from across the world of local government.

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