Thursday, 5 February 2026

 Ann-Marie HERMANS (South-Eastern Metropolitan) (12:42): My constituency question today is for the Minister for Local Government, and the question that I have is: what are you doing to look into the matter regarding Minister Staikos and the $75,000 that was granted to a multicultural community that is connected to one of the councillors in Kingston? This situation has been going on for a long time now with monitors that are in the City of Kingston. We are aware that there was $75,000 that was granted to a particular multicultural group that actually had their event in a completely different council to the City of Kingston. What is the minister doing to resolve this situation – to take away the monitors, who seem to have come in as a result of threats to the mayor and other councillors?