Cameron Atfield is a senior reporter at the Brisbane Times
Moreton Bay mayor Allan Sutherland has declared he will no longer accept contributions from a controversial election campaign fund after he was questioned by the Crime and Corruption Commission on Friday afternoon.
MP Shayne Neumann said the ALP members he assisted at the Ipswich local government election were his friends.
Councillor Peter Flannery declared a $3677 gift from the Moreton Futures Trust, a trust largely funded by developers.
Donors were instructed to fund Moreton Bay mayor Allan Sutherland's election through a third party, which had the effect of hiding developer donations from his disclosure statements, evidence before a Crime and Corruption Commission showed on Thursday.
One of the trustees of a fund that has donated to Moreton Bay Regional Council mayor Allan Sutherland has told a Crime and Corruption Commission hearing he had no recollection of ever agreeing to hold such a role.
They insisted shared how-to-vote cards did not mean they were acting illegally as a group in the 2016 election.
Ipswich mayor Paul Pisasale has called for public funding of council campaigns as he faced a grilling at a Crime and Corruption Commission hearing into alleged corruption during the 2016 Queensland local government elections.
A Gold Coast councillor who received $30,000 in donations from the Liberal National Party while running as an independent candidate last year has conceded voters could conclude she was anything but independent.
"Compared to 2012, I believe the level of complaints were significantly higher," the head of Queensland's electoral commission said.
Clean Air Queensland says communities are being exposed to undisclosed and unregulated fine particle pollution concentrations.
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