ALP councillors quash mayor-vote reform

ALP councillors quash mayor-vote reform

Labor councillors have voted down a proposed report on the public electing Greater Dandenong’s mayor and deputy mayor. Greens councillor Rhonda Garad, who raised the motion at a 24 March council meeting, said reform would break an ALP stranglehold on the mayoralty for the past decade. “It makes sense that (ALP councillors) won’t back this motion because if the status quo is working for you, why would you want to change it? “We have an extreme re…