Team Adelaide-affiliate Alexander Hyde, who last week voted to impose a new standing order that prevents councillors from speaking to the media about their proposals before the publication of meeting agendas, told InDaily this morning he will now seek to abolish the rule at next week’s council meeting.
Team Adelaide and independent councillor Jessy Khera voted to impose the rule, but their support drew significant backlash from the public, the journalists’ union and former Local Government Minister Mark Brindal, who introduced the Act that governs the city council.
However the council’s governance manager Rudi Deco told councillors in an email, seen by InDaily, that if Moran “intends to go to the media” with proposed motions “it will not contravene section 229.2 of the standing orders… if what’s conveyed to the media is not the written notice of motion”.