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2024 Gold Coast City Council Election
The 2024 Gold Coast City Council election was held on 16 March 2024 to elect a mayor and 14 councillors to the City of Gold Coast. The election was held as part of the statewide local elections in Queensland, Australia. Incumbent mayor Tom Tate was re-elected to serve a record fourth term in office. Background Division 9 councillor Glenn Tozer, who was elected as Independent LNP, left the Liberal National Party in June 2020 to sit as an independent. On 23 August 2023, Division 7 councillor Ryan Bayldon-Lumsden was charged by Queensland Police with the murder of his stepfather, 58-year-old Robert Lumsden. He was suspended as a councillor on 15 September 2023, but is re-contesting his seat. Retiring councillors Independent * Pauline Young (Division 12) – announced retirement on 28 October 2023 * Daphne McDonald (Division 13) - announced retirement on 28 January 2024 Independent LNP * William Owen-Jones (Division 2) - announced retirement on 9 February 2023 * Cameron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Tate
Thomas Richard Tate is a Laotian-born Australian businessman, property investor and politician who is the current mayor of the City of Gold Coast. He was first elected on 28 April 2012 and re-elected on both 19 March 2016 and 28 March 2020 with more than two thirds of the preferential vote. Personal life Tom Tate was born in 1959 in Vientiane, Laos, to a Thai mother and an Australian father. His father, Warwick, was an engineer who met Tate's mother, Prapai, when building an airport for the Americans in Thailand. At 11 months of age, Tate's mother took him to Thailand and falsely claimed it was a home birth in order to gain Thai-born citizenship. His parents separated when his father moved back to Sydney from Thailand in 1970, and Tate joined him a year later. Tate attended school at Scots College in Sydney where he was a drummer in the school's pipe band. A qualified civil engineer, Tate graduated from the University of NSW in the early 1980s. He started his career in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |