Under-fire Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate says he had a conversation about tariffs with US President Donald Trump just before dinner at Mar-a-Lago — despite the Trump Organization claiming no such dinner happened.

The Greens have blown up their relationship with the ACT government, leaving the minority Labor government in a perilous position.

An emotional Tara Cheyne defended her track record as she was censured in the ACT Legislative Assembly over reduced library hours, a move criticised by independent Leanne Castley, who said her former party intended to "censure, smear and whinge their way to the 2028 election".

Labor urged a local council to seek election funding for an Adelaide soccer precinct before the project had been fully scoped, costed or designed.

Green-run council also curbing ads for airlines, cruises, fossil fuels and SUVs on its billboards and bus shelters Bristol has become the first British city to impose a ban on the advertising of fast fashion, in new restrictions that will also curb ads for SUVs and airlines. The ban is part of moves by the West Country city, known for its radical political scene , to impose sweeping bans on advertising for polluting industries. Continue reading...

This misconceived Treasury pet project may have been foisted on the government, but it would have added to voters’ mistrust in politics Shock reverberated through England’s councils last week. “Beggars belief!” “Shambolic!” council leaders protested to the Local Government Information Unit (LGIU), which says: “We’ve never before heard such expletives. They’re apoplectic, incandescent.” And they have every right to be. The government has slammed the brakes on its unexpected reorganisation of local councils. This almost certainly ends the one-size-fits-all, politically damaging remapping of England’s councils , which was never forewarned in Labour’s manifesto. Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Tom Tate has been asked questions about conflicting accounts of a dinner he claimed to have had with US President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago earlier this year.

An energy-hungry data centre that received recent council approval to have diesel generators as backup power is now appealing against the "unreasonable" conditions on how they can be used.

The Local Government Inspector launches further investigation into problems at the City of Perth.