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Andrew Thaler speaks to the media on his arrival for a Snowy Monaro Regional Council meeting, in Cooma, 2024.

Serial pest’s offensive rampage hasn’t stopped, even after 19 complaints

Andrew Thaler is accused of violating an official order to stop threatening and offending colleagues in a campaign of “deliberate, calculated chaos”.

  • Jordan Baker

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Andrew Thaler has been subject to complaints since he became a councillor

Serial pest racks up 19 complaints but says he’s ‘smashing’ his job

Local councillor Andrew Thaler is accused of harassment, intimidation, name-calling – and making one worker physically ill with stress.

  • Jordan Baker
Liverpool council under threat of suspension.

Nepotism, wasted money and potential corruption: Liverpool Council on the brink

Major projects related to the Aerotropolis precinct and large housing developments have been threatened, while a damning report also highlights a “toxic culture” within the council.

  • Kate McClymont, Ben Cubby and Max Maddison
To get loan help over the line explain how you intend to turn your circumstances around and understand that nothing – ever – is free

Sydney mayor’s brazen attempt to annex half an LGA

Despite the severe housing crisis, Sydney councils are spending an inordinate amount of time and energy plotting mergers and demergers they can’t afford.

  • Michael Koziol
Fish after

‘Fair-dinkum balls-up’: Big stink over town’s giant fish ends in repaint job

It was 10 days before Christmas. The tiny town of Adaminaby had gathered to celebrate the 50th birthday of a giant fibreglass trout. But what they saw that day left them horrified.

  • Catherine Naylor
We asked every Cumberland councillor where they stood on the same-sex parent book ban, set to be revoked at a meeting on Wednesday night.

As it happened: Cumberland City councillors meet as same-sex parents book ban debate rages

As councillors vote on plans to overturn a ban on a children’s book about same-sex parents, protesters are due to gather outside council chambers.

  • Anthony Segaert and Megan Gorrey
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Ku-Ring-Gai Mayor Sam Ngai on Thursday.

This mayor says he’s ‘more YIMBY than NIMBY’, but his council will sue the state over housing

Ku-ring-gai mayor Sam Ngai has come under fire from the planning minister for making a legal challenge to the state’s new laws.

  • Anthony Segaert
The construction site for the Parramatta metro station.

Councils were stripped of planning powers. This mayor wants to go further

Parramatta’s lord mayor says the state government was right to take away some planning powers – and local councils urgently need further reforms.

  • Anthony Segaert
Shaggy Tails Walking’s Steph Jackson was one of dozens of small business owners who would have been impacted.

Council scraps plans to charge dog walkers for using parks

Inner West Council’s commercial dog walking policy had sought to charge walkers $552 a year for using council land.

  • Mary Ward
Casino, Gaming and Liquor Regulation Minister Melissa Horne.

Councillors to face fines for misbehaving

New laws will clamp down on councillor misconduct before the 2024 local government elections.

  • Benjamin Preiss and Rachael Dexter

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