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Another one bites the dust: Inner West Council GM calls it quits
By ALLISON HORE Following mayor Darcy Byrne's referral of his own council to the auditor general over its handling of the Dawny refurbishment, a senior official in the Inner West Council has decided to call it quits. In an email sent to council staff on Tuesday afternoon, acting general manager of the Inner West Council, […]
Calls for gender balance on recruitment panel
By KATE RAFFERTY Inner West Councillors have expressed concern about a lack of gender representation on the next General Manager recruitment panel, voted through in a council meeting on Tuesday 10 November. “We have a majority of female councillors in council, eight versus seven, yet we couldn’t get a majority of councillors to vote for […]
Inner-West Council chaos
By ALLISON HORE The Inner-West Council is in search of a new Chief Executive Officer after months of tension and council infighting culminated in CEO Michael Deegan ending his contract. Over two meetings within council on Tuesday and Thursday last week, Mr. Deegan negotiated with council to end his $440,000-a-year contract. The council resolved to […]
Asbestos policy needs support
BY JOAN HENSON Linden Thorley’s home was covered in deadly asbestos after an Australia Street warehouse fire on June 17 last year. It took over 10 months to completely clean his address of asbestos. His home had to be demolished as it could not remain standing with the necessary removal of 100 millimetres of soil. […]
