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Local Government Minister Stephan Knoll has delayed a decision on whether to replace the Coober Pedy Council with an administrator until after the November local government elections.
Travel
Driving off the beaten track in far north South Australia is not for the faint-heated – especially when your adventure takes you underground. But there are plenty of hidden gems to discover in the strangely Mars-like landscape, writes Stephanie Richards.
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A South Australian council was assured by a senior state bureaucrat that Crown law had legally ‘covered off’ a controversial power deal, 20 months before the same council was found guilty of “serious maladministration” over agreeing to sign the agreement without going through its internal procurement processes.
A deal designed in offices in the city and negotiated largely between several layers of government and corporate executives looks set to bring down a tiny local council. David Washington asks whether an Ombudsman’s investigation into serious maladministration has left some of the biggest questions unanswered.
The Ombudsman has found a South Australian council committed “one of the most serious examples of maladministration” he has seen when it signed a controversial deal with a major power company, with the council now under threat of being wound up.
Ombudsman Wayne Lines has found a Coober Pedy councillor committed misconduct by failing to declare an interest at a key meeting that supported a now controversial new electricity deal for the outback town.
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