A council deemed “broken” by years of bitter feuds is set to become Victoria’s second local government to be sacked within two months.
The Andrews government has moved to dump Whittlesea Council in Melbourne’s outer north, after a monitor found its governance had “irretrievably collapsed”…
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Influential upper house crossbencher, the Reason Party’s Fiona Patten, said the government should be looking at other options rather than showing the entire council the door.
“Again it seems that we will be using a hammer to crack a walnut,” she told reporters.
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