Cr Owen has repeatedly over the past few weeks made a spurious motion trying to get the Chair to call Cr Collier’s questions in Question Time out of order. Cr Owen has repeatedly been told that her point of order would not be acted on. Cr Cassidy (I think…might have been one of the other Labor councillors) points out today that this behaviour is rather rude and he asks that the Chair call her out for disorderly behaviour. The Chair refuses.

A public participant talking about koalas crossing on Boundary Road.

In response, Cr Griffiths moves a motion requesting the Lord Mayor table all reports, official research, and expert findings related to fauna fencing on Boundary Rd. The urgency motion is approved by the LNP but debate is moved to the end of the next meeting.

Chair makes a ruling stating that all uses of the word “liar” or “lies” or any other conjugation thereof will be ruled out of order.

The Lord Mayor talks about the news recently that some people’s homes are at risk of being resumed unless they proactively put in a submission saying they don’t want it. He says that Council was forced into this because the State Government requires them to create an LGIP and they cannot make changes to the proposed LGIP except in response to a submission. They had to do what they did.

I find this curious, because if, as they say, they didn’t really want to resume homes, they could have just…not mentioned that they were up for resumption in the LGIP?

The Lord Mayor makes reference to the change in the State Government’s rules to allow for land valuation to be put on hold after an emergency. He says that he had called for that in response to last year’s floods, but it was not done. He welcomes the change having come now.