Tony Bleasdale is an Australian politician currently serving as the Mayor of the

Blacktown City Council Blacktown City Council is a local government area in Western Sydney, situated on the Cumberland Plain, approximately west of the Sydney central business district, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1906 as the Blacktow ...

, the second-largest

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by population, and fifth most-populous local government in

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. He previously served as deputy mayor from 2016 to 2019, and has been a Blacktown City Councillor since his election in 1996. Bleasdale succeeded

Stephen Bali Stephen Louis Bali is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly since 14 October 2017, representing the seat of Blacktown since a by-election held to replace former Labor leader John Robertso ...

as mayor in an extraordinary meeting of council in October 2019 and was re-elected unopposed by council on 9 September 2020. He was awarded an

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in 2010 for his service to the community.

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