MAYOR OF WAGGA WAGGA ROD KENDALL : SERIOUS QUESTIONS OVER HIS FINANCIAL INTERESTS. DID HE HIDE THESE ITEMS FROM COUNCIL? WERE HIS VOTES ON COUNCIL COMPROMISED?

Australia First Party candidate for Councillor in Wagga Wagga, Lorraine Sharp, says she has received information from “an anonymous source” that seems to question the propriety of the Mayor of Wagga Wagga, Rod Kendall.

This comes at a time (as we shall report soon) that the Mayor plans to challenge her election to Council, if indeed, she joins Council onSeptember 10.

Lorraine has outlined the following questions for Mayor Kendall:

1. Is it true that you are a partner in a company which owns aircraft hangers?

2. Is it true that you have not declared this interest in your statement of financial interests on the Council register, as required by law?

3. Is it true that you voted in open Council the $2.4 million of Council funds to facilitate the entry of Douglass Aerospace into the Riverina economy, knowing that this would alter the value of your shares in the aircraft hanger business? And knowing that you should have declared this interest and declined to vote on it, as required by law?

4. Is it true that you recently, without a proper reference to Council, gave the owners of the aircraft hangers a 50% reduction in rates or rents due to Council in order to facilitate their relationship with the (now failed) Douglass Aerospace development in Wagga Wagga?

5. Did you understand that you would benefit from this arrangement?

Lorraine Sharp said today that in 2013 many anonymous persons came through with accurate information to sink the poisonous and anti-Australia China Trade Centre so supported by Mr. Kendall and others on Council. She informed us that people had approached her over recent weeks with all sorts of data about the affairs of Council and other persons in Wagga Wagga.

Lorraine said in Sydney this morning:

“I am very concerned that this information is accurate - in the same way that when I was on pre-poll on Monday being intimidated by Mr. Kendall, that his claim to be travelling overseas to Germany on ‘cattle class fares’ was obviated by his secret upgrade of the ticket, yes perhaps indeed at his expense, but to business class, a sleight of hand that may suggest bad faith with the ratepayers and voters of our city. Bad faith in one thing often means bad faith in another. The issue is now up to Mr. Kendall to answer.”

The answers to these questions would be published by Australia First Party.