
Petition Tabled….Will it be the last we hear of it!? (City of Darwin council)
This article is an accurate account of what was said. If you read the COD meetings policy he is supposed to have read the petition, simply present it to council and then council vote to accept the petition. Debate is not supposed to occur at this point. Any debate is supposed to occur later if the petition is brought up. So to have to listen to this opinion which could be described as discourteous has me wondering if Councillor Palmer has breached policy. Members of the public are not able to bring up points of order so it is up to the Lord Mayor to rein in his councillor.
The CLP MLAs did attempt to have a discussion at the public forum prior to the meeting. It was clear they weren't familiar with meeting policy rules and hadn't even done a basic AI search of what the relevant rules are. So it was the absolute farce that those forums always are. Nothing is minuted and they are less than informative.