They run the same playbook as Pauline Hanson and Donald Trump: turn every sanction into persecution. Inside the NSW rules that still can’t make badly behaved councillors stop.
Fred McGrady
Posted inAustralia Votes 2025, Indigenous, New England Electorate, Parkes Electorate
AEC work underway to ensure remote, Indigenous votes are counted
Following electoral disaster in Toomelah at last year’s council election, the Australian Electoral Commission is pulling out all the stops to make sure that those who live remotely or in small villages have their vote counted.
Posted inLocal politics, Moree, Moree Plains Shire
Moree Plains Cr James alone in no confidence motion, award winning acting GM appointed
An attempted motion of no confidence in Mayor Susannah Pearse has spectacularly failed, in a meeting that unspectacularly revealed that the next acting GM of the Council is an award winning star financial manager fresh from Coffs Harbour.
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 inInvestigation, Local Government Elections 2024, NSW Politics, Toomelah
The Toomelah in the Electoral System
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.