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Adelaide City Council will vote to start meetings in the early afternoon to prevent staff and elected members from sitting past midnight after long-term councillor Anne Moran threatened legal action over the lengthy duration of meetings.
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“Snotty North Adelaide girl” Anne Moran has copped her fair share of insults, but despite a 25-year career marred by controversy, the frank, fearless and divisive Adelaide City councillor says she’s not yet finished at Town Hall.
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Controversial Adelaide City councillor Anne Moran has refused to publicly apologise for committing misconduct, despite being ordered to do so by her fellow councillors – who are also appealing to the State Government to beef up the Ombudsman’s powers when members “flout the law with impunity”.
Adelaide City Councillor Anne Moran says she will run for Lord Mayor at the next council election, hours after it was revealed she was found to have committed misconduct by the state’s Ombudsman.
Adelaide City Councillor Anne Moran has stood by a comment she sent in an email to elected members suggesting that the city’s Australia Day fireworks be cancelled as they upset “new immigrants because they remind them of the bombing and wars they have been traumatised by”.
Adelaide City Council’s CEO says he will clarify how his staff offer advice to elected members, after the Lord Mayor was accused of interfering with councillor motions.
