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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Sage Swinton

Labor 'muddies the water' in letters investigation, councillor says

Lord mayor Nuatali Nelmes and council CEO Jeremy Bath.

Newcastle councillors have unanimously voted to support an independent investigation into links between the City of Newcastle CEO and a Newcastle Herald letter writer.

The elected council agreed on five points from a ten-point motion raised by Labor councillor Carol Duncan at the July 25 council meeting, which involved noting media reports around CEO Jeremy Bath's connections to long-term Herald letter to the editor writer Scott Neylon and supporting an investigation by an independent conduct reviewer.

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