Local Government
FOOLISH: Brumby under fire for leaving pedophiles with more legal rights than local councillors and workers
The Brumby government has been accused of leaving pedophiles and murderers more legal rights than local councillors and their staff.
RISKY BUSINESS: Government supports film festival featuring porn, torture, rape and risky HIV behaviours
A state-sponsored film festival in Melbourne intends to exhibit films well outside the community standard. No doubt the controversy will boost their sales but is it undermining community support for public funding of the arts?
ANGRY SAM THE WOMAN-HATER: Nasty Casey bully boy Aziz targets women, prompting female councillor to quit
A beastly local councillor in outer-suburban Melbourne, Sam Aziz, is being accused of brutalising female council colleagues, prompting one female Casey Councillor to quit in disgust.
BUGGERS: Racist ginger group SunRRA’s shadowy surveillance operations exposed
A racist ginger group operating in Melbourne’s western suburbs is being investigated by Police over its use of surveillance devices against Brimbank councillors, officials and political rivals. SunRRA’s president Darlene Reilly has refused to co-operate with investigators and if charged and convicted with offences under the Surveillance Devices Act could go to jail for two years.
HOW GREEN IS YOUR NUTCASE? Locals disparage David Ellis over racial attack and bushfire insult
A high-ranking Greens party member serving on an eastern suburbs council in Melbourne has insulted a colleague on racial grounds and has now extended his unpleasantness to bushfire victims. And just when David Ellis didn’t need any more enemies, he’s found a false friend in the form of the infamous Stephen Mayne. How low can one man go?
SLUR: Greens party councillor’s racial attack could see him sacked
A Greens party councillor in Melbourne’s east reckons that if you’re married to a Korean you are disqualified from voting on any proposal relating to the Chinese community. And David Ellis has not been shy about expressing his racist views to council colleagues. Will the eccentric and dangerous local councillor be sacked by a trigger-happy Local Government minister?
BIG JOB: Victoria’s little minister for small community group grants announcements
A new lefty state minister appears to be the minister for not much at all. But her role has given her the opportunity to rub shoulders with Melton’s popular mayor, the Crown Prince of the Mammarella clan, Mayor Justin Mammarella.
AT LAST: Labor moderates completely cleared while Ombudsman under pressure to quit
A scathing Victorian Ombudsman’s report into the Brimbank council has been found to be baseless after an investigation into his recommendations by Local Government Victoria. All those damned by the Ombudsman have been cleared but he has many questions to answer. Reform of his now thoroughly discredited office is now a high priority. The most important change needs to be at the top, George Brouwer is clearly unfit for the high office he holds.
LOSING IT: Local politician Stephen Mayne turns defeat into disaster
Stephen Mayne’s failed bid for the mayoralty in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs Manningham municipality prompted a vicious attack on the colleagues who denied him the pay rise he desperately needed. It raises the question, is Mayne Australia’s most charmless man?
DOWNER: Lord Alexander seeks to become mayor of Adelaide
Alexander Downer has all but declared his candidacy for the Lord Mayoralty of Adelaide, following in the footsteps of Robert Doyle, the former Liberal state leader who came from nowhere to win the Melbourne Lord Mayoralty. Downer told 3AW’s Neil…
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