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Subscriber only All but one of Gympie Regional Council s nine councillors has received a better report card from Gympie Times readers at the one year mark, than they were given six months ago. Mayor Glen Hartwig was top of the class with respondents to The Gympie Times online poll, scoring an A-minus for his performance 12 months into his first term in the top job. His result was buoyed by more half of respondents giving him an A (good), which boosted his grade from the B he was given in October last year. The remainder of Mr Hartwig s results were split almost evenly across grades B-E.
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Subscriber only GYMPIE region councillors and staff have come under attack on social media over a controversial decision to repeal environment protection laws, with an inflammatory post by ex-councillor Dr Daryl Dodt going further than any other post. In the lead-up to and during debate on the laws, Facebook users fired away at those involved in the discussion with accusations of falsities and questions of integrity. A post on a Facebook page apparently run by Gympie GP and former councillor Daryl Dodt before the meeting yesterday pre-emptively took aim at those who would vote to overturn the laws introduced in February this year.