Queensland’s police commissioner has launched a legal challenge against the decision to acquit a former mayor of 13 fraud charges.
The council ordered the popular inner west cafe to tear down the bright signage because the size,location and colour required approval.
A lack of evidence led prosecutors to drop fraud charges against seven former Logan councillors on Thursday,almost two years after the move saw the entire council dismissed.
Crime and Corruption Commission chair Alan MacSporran,QC,said the watchdog accepted the decision to drop fraud charges against a group of former councillors and had acted appropriately at all times.
The LGAQ has called for the head of the state’s corruption watchdog to be stood aside while an independent investigation takes place.
Seven Logan councillors who were suspended after the Crime and Corruption Commission Queensland levelled fraud allegations against them have had their charges dropped in court.
Allan Sutherland was charged with two counts of misconduct in relation to public office in December 2019.
The remaining fraud charges against former City of Perth councillor Jim Adamos stemming from a lengthy and expensive inquiry into the dysfunctional local government have been dropped.
Tony Harris,who has also served as a senior Commonwealth public servant and a Labor staffer for five months,told the upper house inquiry on Wednesday he had never seen a program as “purely politically administered"as the Stronger Communities grants fund.
The opening of the largest aquatic centre to be built in Sydney since the 2000 Olympic Games has been delayed until February and locals are not happy.
Mark Goodlet's departure will leave the council with three vacancies in an executive team of four,with all three executives to step down in early 2021.