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Redlands mayor Jos Mitchell.

Governance adviser appointed for complaint-plagued bayside council

Redland City Council had the most complaints of any local government in Queensland last year.

  • Julius Dennis

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Former Townsville mayor Troy Thompson previously apologised on A Current Affair.

Ex-mayor lied about army service, degrees and cancer: watchdog

Former Townsville mayor Troy Thompson was also found to have shared confidential information outside council, Queensland’s corruption commission has found.

  • Dominique Tassell
The golf course next to the Eatons Hill Hotel, bought by Comiskey Group, and Carolyn Taylor, whose family used to own the links.

Council forcibly bought the Georges’ land in 2012. They just sold it to the biggest pub in town for less

The City of Moreton Bay bought a family-run golf course to limit the risk of developers swooping in. They sold it last week to the pub next door.

  • Julius Dennis
Former Hinchinbrook MP Nick Dametto thanked Townsville after local media called the mayoral by-election about 10pm on Saturday night.

Former state MP claims victory in Townsville mayoral race

Nick Dametto has declared victory after surging to a comfortable lead in the north Queensland city’s mayoral byelection.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
A major sewage spill along the Albert River has been labelled the Gold Coast’s worst environmental disaster.

Dead eels and gasping fish: Gold Coast council told to fix sewer issues

The latest order follows the discovery of a corroded pipe that leaked 450 million litres of sewage into the Albert River.

  • Julius Dennis
Redlands mayor Jocelyn Mitchell.

‘Loopholes’ in council complaints system can be weaponised: mayor

Redlands mayor Jocelyn Mitchell has received 47 complaints through the state’s councillor conduct watchdog, the Office of the Independent Assessor.

  • Julius Dennis
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Rendalls and local MP Rebecca Young.

$630k training deal to renovate councillor’s property scrapped

The state-funded project, which would have seen a south-east Queensland councillor’s property renovated for crisis housing, has been cancelled.

  • Julius Dennis
Rendalls and Young on a ferry in January this year.

State to fund renovation of LNP-linked councillor’s property

A government program has set aside more than $630,000 for a training business to undertake works on a property part-owned by a Redlands councillor.

  • Julius Dennis
Troy Thompson will face off against Katter’s Australian Party MP Nick Dametto to be mayor of Townsville.

Bid to boost power in Katter Country revealed in mayoral race

Katter’s Australian Party MP Nick Dametto will leave state parliament to challenge Troy Thompson in the Townsville mayoral race.

  • William Davis, Catherine Strohfeldt and James Hall
The stadium would have a permanent 5000-seat capacity and be expanded for the Games.

Logan unveils ballpark vision as mayor makes pitch to Asian investors

Logan Mayor Jon Raven has taken his council’s vision for an Olympic ballpark to Asia in a bid to attract investors to build the stadium in time for the 2032 Games.

  • Cameron Atfield

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