{"id":26859,"date":"2019-08-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/it-s-time-to-take-good-look-at-council-powers\/"},"modified":"2019-08-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T00:00:00","slug":"it-s-time-to-take-good-look-at-council-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/it-s-time-to-take-good-look-at-council-powers\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Time To Take A Good Look At Council Powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>A local member is calling for reform following the latest \u201cmad political foray\u201d when Mitcham council pulled funding for its annual Christmas carols event before reversing its decision.<\/h3>\n<p>FIVEAA Breakfast\u2019s David Penberthy said during Thursday\u2019s Breaking @ 8 segment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere seems to be an appetite within the Marshall government for a bit of an examination as to the manner in which councils are arguably exceeding their powers by going after Christian events such as carol nights and most contentiously things like citizenship ceremonies for Australia Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Penbo quoted member for Waite Sam Duluk:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis is merely the latest example of the kind of mad political foray we have seen from councils here and interstate. It is time for serious council reform to look at the roles, responsibilities and powers of local government.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Mr Duluk, the Local Government Act could be amended to restrict council powers to the \u201cthree Rs: rates, roads and rubbish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LISTEN:<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/Seven-Adelaide-Crows-Players-Want-OUT-At-The-End-Of-The-Year\">SEVEN ADELAIDE CROWS PLAYERS WANT OUT AT THE END OF THE YEAR<\/a><\/strong><\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"188\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/david-will\/davidandwillpodcast-1august2019\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local member is calling for reform following the latest \u201cmad political foray\u201d when Mitcham council pulled funding for its annual Christmas carols event before reversing its decision. FIVEAA Breakfast\u2019s David Penberthy said during Thursday\u2019s Breaking @ 8 segment: \u201cThere seems to be an appetite within the Marshall government for a bit of an examination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,231],"tags":[246,245],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-26859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-show","tag-fiveaa-app","tag-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>It\u2019s Time To Take A Good Look At Council Powers - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/it-s-time-to-take-good-look-at-council-powers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"It\u2019s Time To Take A Good Look At Council Powers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A local member is calling for reform following the latest \u201cmad political foray\u201d when Mitcham council pulled funding for its annual Christmas carols event before reversing its decision. 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