In contradiction to section 1.3(2) of the WA Local Government Act 1995, which prescribes:
This Act is intended to result in —
(a) better decision-making by local governments; and
(b) greater community participation in the decisions and
affairs of local governments; and
(c) greater accountability of local governments to their
communities; and
(d) more efficient and effective local government.
the City of Melville Local Government is in practice, controlled by its administrative staff as a managed autocratic monopoly.

While section 2.7 of the Local Government Act prescribes that the Council governs the local government’s affairs, in actual practice Melville Council is legislatively bullied, openly obstructed from governing, and being tightly relegated to simplistically “rubber stamping” their administrators’ directives.
These inherent discriminatory prejudices had been introduced as a part of the recent legislative prescription “reforms” resulting in delivery of clear class segregation in Local Government:

1) WA Local Government can be identified by its incestuous employment empire where employment is seen to be managed on the principal basis of nepotistic patronage. This provides a self protecting employment pool constricting management skills development;

2) The Legislation evidences that senior management are legislatively, unilaterally required to ‘whistleblow’ elected member conduct, which ensures a fear among elected members from employee domination.

3) Complaints against administrators being legislated to be managed by those same administrators as were the subject of the complaints delivers an unmistakable conflict of interest obstructing integrity in governance.

4) Legislation identifies some ten different compliance and enforcement directions, and from among them, only the Supreme Court carrying any semblance of independence and even that is unreasonably expensive to be a practical solution to substandard or recalcitrant conduct.

5) Elected members are openly prejudiced against in legislation.

6) While Councillors are legislated to represent electors they are in practice obstructed and dissuaded from doing so.

7) While Councillors are required to vote on merits, administrators are legislated as the principle advisors for provision of information on which council are to make their decisions.

8) There is no legislated capacity to balance or counter misleading advice provided by administrators to Council.

9) There is no legislated capacity to ensure responses to public questions to council are honest or accurate and no means or process to have false or misleading responses corrected.

10) in blatant disregard of the ‘Rule of Law‘, administrators write all the Local Government’s policies, interpret all policy, apply/administer all policy, enforce all policy and do so to the express benefit of administrators in the absence of any independent oversight. The absence of independent oversight ensures policy is systematically rubber stamped by Council.

11) Although legislation supports more than 35 places for community engagement, only token community engagement is permitted to occurs and then only to the express benefit of administrators. Community democracy is a myth.

12) Legislation supports at least six (6) segregated classes of persons of whom are subjected to ten (10) or more non-aligned conduct assessors and by that prevent uniform conduct standards.

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