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Premium Content Subscriber only Days before voting to decide Rockhampton’s next mayor, some may wonder where candidates got their money, how much they received, and how much they have spent. Below is a list, current as of January 18, that includes total campaign expenditure and the name of donors, their occupations, the amounts they gave, and any other information provided in their submissions to the Electoral Commission of Queensland. Anyone not included has no declared donations or expendit...

Rockhampton voters will be rich with choice come January 23. To help electors organise their preferences, we asked mayor hopefuls for a brief outline of their ideas and policies regarding 10 topics of interest. Over the coming days, The Morning Bulletin will publish their answers. Any excluded candidates did not respond in time for publication or chose not to comment on the issue at hand. The first topic is the council and council rates.   Russell Claus - Ensure that the structure of t...

We asked your by-election candidates for their ideas and policies about the council.

Premium Content Subscriber only Early voting for Rockhampton’s next mayor began on Monday morning at the James Lawrence Pavilion of the Rockhampton Showgrounds and at the Gracemere Community Centre. The candidates greeting electors and handing out flyers said queues stretched down the street when the showgrounds pavilion opened at 9am. By 1pm, two or three were entering every minute, having passed by John Rewald, Nyree Johnson, Rob Crow, friends of Tony Williams, Cherie Rutherford, Donna Kirk...

Record Rockhampton mayoral contenders state their plans for the region ahead of by-election SunSunday 3 updated MonMonday 4 Rockhampton has had an acting mayor since November. ( Share Print text only Cancel Rockhampton voters will be spoilt for choice when they go to a by-election on Saturday, January 23 with a record 17 candidates vying for the citys top job. Key points: Seventeen candidates are vying for the role of Rockhampton Mayor, a record for most mayoral candidates in a Queensland local...

Grayson County said goodbye to some long-term employees in 2020 [Herald Democrat] Many of the people in key leadership positions, both elected and not, at Grayson County have held those positions for years if not decades and are beginning to retire. In 2020, the county lost leaders in the Information Technology Department, Purchasing Department and at the District Attorney’s Office. Maybe the most noticeable retirement saw the passing of the torch at the head of the county’s Information Tec...

Jerrie Whiteley / Herald Democrat Many of the people in key leadership positions, both elected and not, at Grayson County have held those positions for years if not decades and are beginning to retire. In 2020, the county lost leaders in the Information Technology Department, Purchasing Department and at the District Attorneys Office.  Maybe the most noticeable retirement saw the passing of the torch at the head of the countys Information Technology Department when Ken Miller retired in Septem...

Chris Hooper. Chris Hooper attended the draw wearing a pineapple-themed shirt and said in a statement he was “definitely the underdog” and that he would finance his own campaign rather than accept money from “self-serving people”. “The Palaszczuk Government has spent millions of dollars of tax payer money to prevent me from being mayor,” he said. “I am really pleased that a lot of people have suddenly showed a lot of interest in running for council: this cou...