A LEADING council watchdog is demanding that all fines under the Mornington Peninsula Shire Council’s parking pilot scheme be refunded over “human rights” concerns.
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New statistics have revealed a number of local council executives in Victoria earn as much as some of the country s most senior political leaders, with one CEO s salary almost matching the annual pay of the Prime Minister.
Hobsons Bay City Council is millions of dollars short on funding a planned $60 million aquatic centre in Altona Meadows and acknowledges the costs could blow out by 40 per cent.