A recent decision from the Glen Innes Severn Council (GISC) to terminate a longstanding partnership with local disability employer Glen Industries to manage locals’ curbside recycling has left locals confused, upset and in need of transparency.
Local politics
Posted inInvestigation, Local Government Elections 2024, NSW Politics, Toomelah
Electoral commission computer steals 2230 New England votes
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.
Posted inArmidale, Federal Politics, Glen Innes, Local politics, NSW Politics
Confirmed: no approval for rail trail, line reactivation a possibility
The NSW Government owns the rail line, and they haven’t given anyone else permission to use it. Yet.
Posted inArmidale, Local politics
Rail Trail Fail: Armidale council leaders accused of deliberately hiding grant loss before election
The New England Rail Trail was a dominant issue in the lead up to, and during the recent local government election. The whole time the truth that the project had lost its funding was being hidden from voters.
Posted inArmidale, Glen Innes, Grants and funding, Guyra, Local politics, NSW Politics, Roads and Infrastructure
Rail Trail funding pulled
The saga of the New England Rail Trail has taken another turn, with bushfire recovery funding allocated to the project being pulled by the NSW Government.
Posted inGlen Innes, Local Government Elections 2024
David Scott has been elected to Glen Innes Severn Council following a countback election
David Scott has been elected to Glen Innes Severn Council following a countback election conducted this week.
Posted inLocal News, Local politics
Country Mayors united by common challenges
United by common challenges, Country Mayors of NSW are standing together like never before following the annual general meeting.
Posted inGunnedah Shire, Local politics
Gunnedah pushes ahead with rates increase
Following an extensive community engagement process, Gunnedah Shire Council has made the difficult but necessary decision to proceed with a Special Rate Variation at an Extraordinary Meeting last week.
Posted inInvestigation, Local Government Elections 2024, NSW Politics
All care, no responsibility: Minister ‘concerned’ but Electoral Commission denies problems
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.
Posted inInvestigation, Local Government Elections 2024, NSW Politics
Moree Plains voting issues bigger than Toomelah
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.