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EDITION #527 THURSDAY, 12 MARCH 2026
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Central Coast Council was fourth on the Office of Local Government’s list of the state’s most complained about councils for the financial year 2024/25. Council attracted 83 complaints, compared to 2023/24 when Central Coast was top of the state with 71 complaints. Central Coast was second in 2021/22 with 92 complaints and in 2020/21 – the year the Council went into its fouryear period of administration – it topped the list with 256 complaints. The Office of Local Government (OLG) categorises complaints in 17 categories and the majority of the
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Coast’s complaints were about natural resource management, misconduct, financial mismanagement, customer service and conflict of interest. But none of the complaints made to the OLG about Central Coast Council during the 2024/25 financial year was found to warrant formal action. Coast Community News asked both Council and the OLG for details on the complaints. Council said it did not have ”visibility” of any complaints made to the Office of Local Government, nor the nature or veracity of the complaints.
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