The Weekly Times - TWT - 12th June 2019

22 THE WEEKLY TIMES Wednesday 12 June, 2019
Rural Aid says thank you to North Ryde RSL Community Club
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you recently for their support
of Rural Aid’s Buy a Bale campaign.
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Wayne Thomson presented
North Ryde RSL Community
Club president Jim Morrison with
a Certificate of Appreciation for
the club’s generosity to a worthy
cause. They are pictured with
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The Buy A Bale campaign is
being conducted by Rural Aid to
support rural Australia through
one of the worst droughts on record.
Numerous organisations,
including North Ryde RSL, have
donated to this campaign to allow
the distribution of fodder,
hampers and other support items
to rural communities during this
tough time. More info on Rural
Aid can be found here: http://
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Three motion limit blasted as an attempt to gag free speech
ANOTHER attempt to limit City of Ryde councillors to raising three motions per
council meeting has failed.
A recent council meeting
saw a second attempt to
enforce a three motion limit
fail when it only received
the support of the four Labor
councillors and former
Greens Clr Edwina Clifton.
It was put forward by La-
bor to deal with time wasting
at meetings but was
blasted by the four Liberal
councillors as an attempt to
gag free speech and silence
the community .
It was also seen by prolific,
community based Independent
Clr Roy Maggio
to target him and he took it
personally.
“To just pin point me is offensive
and I am really getting
sick of it,” he said.
“The last time you tried
this on me the local newspaper
tore you to shreds and
I am sure it will do it again.
“And you have to ask why
they (Labor) are attacking
me and the answer is it is
jealousy, because my motions
are not political and
they are all community
based.”
Labor councillors argue
that some motions would
be better resolved if they
are raised with council staff
before council meetings but
Clr Maggio argues that he
often raises issues with staff
but is not satisfied with the
response.
Labor Clr Bernard Purcell
refuted Clr Maggio’s accusation
the motion is an
attempt to gag him or the
community.
“I am not a gagger, so
please do not call me a gagger,”
Clr Purcell said.
“This is all about getting
procedure and protocol to
work properly so we do not
have to listen to waffle.”
Liberal Clr Jordan Lane
had earlier been lectured by
Clr Purcell about interjecting
during council meetings and
this young Liberal councillor
is furious that community
based motions were
described as waffle.
“This is flicking the switch
on the community, you are
silencing local residents,” he
told the Labor councillors.
Councillor Lane also questioned
if councillors had a legal
right to limit the number
of councillor motions and he
argued that the community
recently endorsed a Code of
Meeting practice policy that
did not include this limit.
Legal counsel Paul Kepetas
noted advice from the
Office of Local Government
and his opinion was
that the limit would not be
a significant change to the
policy, such as a change to
the number of councillors
required for a quorum.
He nonetheless said he
could not guarantee that
there would not be a legal
challenge to it.
The Greens Clr Chris Gordon
voted to support the
status quo of five motions
allowed per councillor per
meeting.
For Liberal Clr Trenton
Brown the whole debate
was a farce.
“We are becoming comic,”
he said.
“We have thrashed this out
two or three times already
and if all these motions go
through without debate then
they take no time at all.
“This is a free speech issue.”