Libertarian Party candidate for Wingecarribee Shire Council Dr Raymond Khoury

Libertarian Party candidate for Wingecarribee Shire Council Dr Raymond Khoury responds to the state government imposed Performance Improvement Order.

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00:00My name is Raymond Currie and I'm the lead candidate for the Libertarian Party.

00:05And we're here at the Windjukurri Beshire Council Chambers today where you're campaigning

00:10leading up to the election on Saturday. Can you tell me a little bit about your thoughts

00:17on this news and the timing of it?

00:21My initial thoughts were I was concerned about it. The timing was was mostly inappropriate.

00:30Surely you could have waited for another week or so until the new councillors were appointed.

00:38The initial response was I was quite displeased with it.

00:47But the reality is that it has passed and now it's a challenge for the new councillors

00:52in order to work with it.

00:55If you had known that this was on the table would it have had any impact on your decision

01:01to run for council?

01:02No it wouldn't. Running for council, the reality is you're confronted with challenge

01:08after challenge after challenge and this is but merely one of those challenges.

01:13So no it wouldn't have made an impact.

01:15Do you feel confident that you will have the freedom to implement the changes that you

01:22want to see?

01:24It will be a bit of a struggle in the sense that it will be a lot slower than what we had

01:29anticipated. It will happen but perhaps not at the rate that we would ideally like.