PUBLIC APOLOGY BY SHIRE PRESIDENT COUNCILLOR MICHAEL SOUTHWELL
Shire of Capel 6 Oct 2021

A complaint was made to the Local Government Standards Panel, in which it was alleged that I contravened Division 4 of the Local Government (Model Code of Conduct) Regulations 2021 when I approached a Shire employee in public in an abusive and threatening manner. The Panel found that I breached regulation 20 of the said Regulations. I accept that I should not have approached the relevant Shire employee. I now apologise to the Shire employee concerned, my fellow Councillors and the public