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Local Government Elections to be delayed |
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Written by Les Fawkes
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012 |
Local
government elections have been delayed to a date to be fixed in late
April or early May as a result of the Premier, Anna Bligh calling an
election for March 24. She said that she first wanted to go on March 3
but wanted to wait until after the Flood Inquiry final report which
will be delivered on March 16th.
With arrangements already in the process for the March Local Government elections it will cause inconveniences for Local Governments. Local Government had previously been given a written guarantee by the State Government that their elections would not be moved from March 31st and as a result they had put their arrangements in place.
The official state campaign will begin on February 19 after she visits the Governor who will then dissolve the Parliament and issue the writs for the 2012 election.
The Premier said that the people of Queensland had a right to see the results of the Flood Inquiry before they went to the ballot box.
It is anticipated that the local government elections will now be held on either April 21st or 28th. The official calling of nominations for the council elections will take
place on March 10th with councils going into a caretaker period on that same
day.
The Sunshine Coast Mayor, Bob Abbot has expressed disappointment and anger over a now-delayed Sunshine Coast council election. He continued that a lot of people had already made commitments to fit in with the local government elections and those people will all now be inconvenienced.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 19 February 2012 )
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