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Ipswich Mayor Teresa Harding speaks about her first year in office
It was 2019, and Teresa Harding had no intention of running to be Ipswich’s first new mayor, following the sacking of the entire council 18 months prior.
Key points:
- Teresa Harding was elected mayor of Ipswich after the previous council was sacked in 2018
- The council was managed for 18 months by administrator Greg Chemello
- It’s almost a year since her election on a platform of transparency and reform
As fate would have it, the former federal candidate was in the Queensland Parliament the day the council was sacked, watching on as a division was called on whether to dismiss Ipswich City Council in August 2018.
“When the bells rang and the doors were shutting and you were waiting for the split, there was no split,” she said.
“It was unanimous,…
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