Qld: Call for council elections to be postponed

From: AAP General News (Australia) | Date: May 23, 2007 | Copyright information

AAP General News (Australia)
05-23-2007
Qld: Call for council elections to be postponed

Queensland's peak local government body has called for next year's council elections
to be delayed.

The state's 157 councils are due to head to the polls in March next year.

But Local Government Association of Queensland president PAUL ...

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