The Victorian State Labor government has sacked the Brimbank council for, among other things, the undue influence the local Labor Party has brought to bear on councillors. A report from a State Government-appointed monitor called for its "suspension and or dismissal". Administrators will be appointed to the western Melbourne council until November 2012, the Minister for Local Government, Richard Wynne, announced this afternoon. The action came after Local Government Inspector Bill Scales also found elements of the ruling Victorian ALP were still trying to apply undue influence on Brimbank Council.
"In the interests of good governance for the people of Brimbank and on advice from the Local Government Inspector, the state government has decided to suspend Brimbank City Council and will move to dismiss the council until the next local government elections in November 2012," Mr Wynne said. "Unfortunately, the Government has been left with no choice, given that Mr Scales has found that councillors have fundamentally failed to correct poor practices and issues of probity and misconduct."
An Ombudsman's report in May found Labor figures had meddled in the affairs of the council, including in the allocation of council resources to community and sporting clubs. The Ombudsman investigated the former council and a new council was elected in November.
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