Anne Stanley (Werriwa, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

On Saturday 18 April, the voters of Liverpool City Council South Ward went to the polls after the resignation of a councillor. Setting aside the unnecessary costs of this election, quoted by the media as at least $800,000, the election was because the CEO did not organise for a countback procedure at the beginning of the council term. Congratulations go to Labor's Zeli Munjiza, whose positive focused campaign meant that she won every booth in South Ward. This amazing result sends a clear message that the lack of services and broken promises should be addressed by council and the mayor, as the ratepayers have had enough of the grandiose ideas and want back to basic delivery. I'd love to see council use the grants that have been received from the federal government to fix many roads in the electorate of Werriwa or deliver on the parks in Austral as promised and funded by the federal government. When the council is slow to act, it's always the residents who were inconvenienced or, worse, put at risk.

Speaking of which, I also want to add my concern about the proposed job losses that went to an extraordinary meeting of council last night. These job cuts, should they go ahead, will no doubt result in the cancellation of further basic services and see workers sacked when we need to be hiring workers to make sure that our normal services, like parks, run properly. Ratepayers are again paying the price for a council's poor administration.