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Prior to his election to the mayoralty, McDonald served as a councillor for the Toowoomba Region between 2012 and 2023, and as deputy mayor since 2020. He is the son of former Queensland State of Origin coach and administrator John McDonald .
First female mayor in Queensland 60: Jack Duggan: 1981: 61: Clive Berghofer: 1982–1992: 62: Ross Miller: 1993–1996: 63: Tony Bourke: 1997–2000: 64: Di Thorley: 2000–2008 – New amalgamated council: March 2008: 65: Peter Taylor: 2008–2012: Formerly the mayor of the Shire of Jondaryan. 66: Paul Antonio: 2012–2023: 67 Geoff McDonald ...
Paul Antonio is a former Australian politician who served as Mayor of Toowoomba, Queensland from 2012 until his retirement in 2023. [2] [3] Prior to his election to the mayoralty in 2012, Antonio served as Deputy Mayor from 2008 to 2012, [4] and as Mayor of Millmerran Shire Council for eight years until its 2008 amalgamation into the new Toowoomba Region.
On July 26, 2022, a secondary dam on the city reservoir was breached after over four inches of rain fell near Nashville in less than 12 hours, causing a 6-foot breach and flooding nearly 40 acres ...
A council of 10 councillors and a Mayor are elected every four years, alongside other LGAs in Queensland. There has been 3 local elections since amalgamation. Cr Peter Taylor, from the Jondaryan (Oakey) Shire was re-elected as the Mayor to serve for the entire region. From 2012, Deputy Mayor, Paul Antonio, won the mayoral election.
Bourke returned to local politics in 1997, when he was elected Mayor of Toowoomba, having received a high-profile late endorsement from Berghofer. [5] He pursued a policy of fiscal restraint as mayor, and touted among his successes as mayor the completion of an aquatic centre, water treatment plant, and securing a deal to sell sewerage effluent to the Millmerran Power Station.
In 2005, mayor Bill Purcell called for cutting the number of legislators in the council down to 20 in a proposal in which fifteen seats would be elected by districts and five seats would remain at-large. In 2006 the Metro Charter Review Commission scheduled a public hearing on the council's size.
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