Gold Coast Deputy Mayor Donna Gates has refused to comment on a ruling handed down by the Councillor Conduct Tribunal and made public this week.
The Office of the Independent Assessor says 30 donations from a campaign fundraising race day — valued at more than $68,000 — were inaccurately described as race tickets on Councillor Gates's register of interests and another donation of $2,500 was not declared within 30 days. A former speaker of the Queensland Parliament, John Mickel, who is now an Adjunct Professor at the Queensland University of Technology said it was a big warning for anyone who wanted to run for local government.
"Modern campaigns cost a lot of money to run and the money is hard to find from a candidate's personal resources," he said."A cap and fully transparent disclosures are needed but I have some issues with [Queensland] laws on [banning] developer contributions," he said.
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