If you found this page chances, are you have a problem with your local Council; welcome to the club!

Having spent the last five years in conflict with my local council, I’m thankfully at a stage where I can say I prevailed, and I’m ready to move on.

Having said that, I’ve learned so many lessons over the past five years, and one might argue that I should run to become a Councilor so that I can help others.

Even if I thought that might help, or that I could get elected, having survived the past five years with my marriage and mental health intact, I’m just not that motivated to fight other people for a seat at that table.

What I will do however is create this blog, so that it might help others navigate their conflicts with Council.

This blog is not for NIMBYs fighting with their neighbour over whether they can build a balcony, it’s for people who have a genuine problem they can’t fix without cooperation from council, and council just won’t cooperate because it is a genuine problem.

I used to watch A Current Affair and see people banging their heads against a brick wall with their local Council, and wonder why none of their local Councilors are helping them resolve the problem.

All of these people seem to resolve their problems in the end, but they are never the same again, and it’s not as if any greater good was served from the years and hundreds of thousands of dollars they spent resolving their issues.

In many cases the Council was 100% responsible for the problem in the first place and had no ethical or moral position to protect; the council simply destroyed people’s mental health, financial wellbeing and marriages to prove that the Council and its staff have absolutely no accountability.

Usually, these people exercised all the due diligence that was available to them, and often relied on documents they paid Council to provide, only to find out that those documents were misleading, or even fraudulent.

In future posts I will explain what Councils are, how they operate, their mentality and tactics, and how to best deal with the mind-fuck of interacting with them.

By creating this blog, and sharing my experience, if I can save just one marriage, prevent just one suicide, or save someone $100,000 in legal expenses I will gratefully accept whatever good karma comes back my way.

If you get anything from these articles, please take the time to leave a comment, or suggest ideas for future posts.