Perth’s newly elected Lord Mayor has come out swinging, ordering an independent workplace culture review at his very first ordinary council meeting.

Just a month after being sworn in, Bruce Reynolds used Tuesday night’s meeting to move an unexpected urgent business motion, creating a new workplace culture committee and appointing external lawyers to lead the review.

Councillors Raj Doshi, Liam Gobbert, Adam Pacan, Lord Mayor Bruce Reynolds, Catherine Lezer, Viktor Ko, Lisa Ma and Chris Patton. Credit: City of Perth

During question time, acting chief executive Peta Mabbs revealed the city had received 10 behavioural complaints so far this calendar year.

She said the city had paid $19,699.91 in invoices related to “behavioural complaints” in the same period, noting lawyers were engag

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