Labor member for Bundamba Jo-Ann Miller said the remaining Ipswich councillors were 'silent numpties' who allowed corruption to fester.Credit:AAP
Following a damning report from Queensland's corruption watchdog,the state government has introduced laws to sack the council entirely,rushing them through parliament on Tuesday to come into effect on Wednesday.
Ms Miller,the Labor MP for the Ipswich-based seat of Bundamba,has been vocal for some time about corruption allegations against the council,and told parliament she had been personally harassed and had her political career derailed because of her public comments.
The remaining councillors who have not been accused of any wrongdoing spent Tuesday cleaning out their offices,and have claimed their sacking is unfair because they did nothing wrong.
But Ms Miller claimed they were"silent numpties"who allowed corruption to fester.
"I call on the councillors of Ipswich to now accept their fate and shut up,"Ms Miller told parliament.
"We don't want those councillors to suddenly form an opposition group and gripe in the media,because they were silent when they had the opportunity to say something."
Under the changes,administrators will be appointed to run the council until the next regular local government elections in 2020.