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Sunday, July 6th, 2025   |   73 comments

POWER GRAB: TCC Bureaucrats Thwarted In Bid To Sideline Council’s Oversight

 A cack-handed sneaky manoeuvre comes spectacularly undone, an outcome that clearly signals that the Hill era of soft corruption is over. It was just one councillor who was awake to what was going on,  and his detailed and eloquent calling out of a council executive was political theatre at its most enjoyable.  And valuable. Not… View full story »

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