Every local government election conducted by the NSW Electoral Commission did not have their votes counted properly, with 30% of the New England votes a computer deemed to be informal able to be saved and counted.
Systematic upheaval, on a social, economic and political scale, is required to address our current poverty crisis. But it's not as complex as that sounds.
Several leading voices have gone on record raising their concerns and observations about why poverty is rising in the region, with housing - or lack of it - topping the list of concerns.
Data and reports from those who work in the sector indicate the New England region is facing an escalating crisis of poverty and economic disadvantage.
Our women leading the way in the New England continues. Meet Kate Dight from Inverell and Susannah Pearse from Moree Plains.
Of the 12 councils that elected mayors in October for their first two-year terms, six of them are women. Meet Margot Davis from Glen Innes, and Bronwyn Petrie from Tenterfield.
As the NSW Electoral Commission scrambles to defend its actions, the responsible minister has expressed 'concern' and kicked the problem to the tall grass of a parliamentary inquiry.
As we continue our investigation into what went wrong on election day in Toomelah, we found every single booth in the Moree Plains Shire Council election, as well as postal votes, had issues in the count.
Something went very wrong at Toomelah's polling booth in the local government elections held on September 14. Like a canary in a coal mine, the abnormal election result at Toomelah may have revealed a much bigger problem state wide.
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