Did you vote in your council’s election at the weekend?

Odds are, you didn’t bother.

As of Monday afternoon, ballots had been returned from close to 516,000 West Australians, for an abysmal voter turnout of just 29.7 per cent of eligible voters.

That means that the result of the 2024 Syrian election, in which 38 per cent of voters turned out to rubber-stamp the regime of since-deposed autocrat Bashar al-Assad, was more democratically representative than those here in WA.

Is it any wonder that local government in this State is a constant merry-go-round of dysfunction, mismanagement and sackings?

The past few months alone have seen three councils in dire strife. In July, the entire Nedlands council was sacked after years of infighting and accusations of corruption and incompetence, its

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