Should jailed former Mayor’s name stay on the bridge

Former Ipswich Mayor Paul Pisasale’s name remains on a landmark bridge despite the disgraced former politician being convicted on two counts of extortion. Should it be changed? VOTE IN OUR POLL.

LAST year, in the wake of Ipswich City Council councillors being sacked and former Mayor Paul Pisasale facing corruption charges, the council said there were no plans to change the name of the bridge in Springfield named after him.

At the time, Pisasale had been charged by the CCC and had denied any wrongdoing.

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Today the council said they were “examining naming policies in the light of recent events”.

The former Mayor will spend the next 12 months behind bars for extorting the Sydney taxi driver boyfriend of a Chinese escort.

“Your fall from grace has been from a great height and very public,” Judge Brad Farr said in his sentencing remarks in the Brisbane District Court on Thursday.