Contentious heritage, recycling changes, and mayoral election strife

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Coming up today on the Local Government News Roundup:

• A heritage nomination process at a Melbourne council prompts claims of racism
• New recycling standards set to change what you can put in your bins
• A call for urgent transport improvements in Melbourne’s north
• Liverpool’s case against the NSW government underway in court
• More strife for incumbent mayors at Sydney councils
• Queensland council workers the latest to take strike action
• A new pay deal for Gold Coast council worker
• A council asked to erect a statue of Julian Assange
• Drones deployed in a US city to warn of impending storms,
• and two New Zealand councils take different paths on Maori wards.

Plus more local government news from around Australia and across the world.

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1. Contentious heritage, recycling changes, and mayoral election strife (00:00:00)

2. Victorian Roundup (00:02:22)

3. National Roundup (00:08:38)

4. Global Roundup (00:17:31)