The Local Government Association of Queensland (LGAQ) has elected its newest president.
Gladstone Regional Council Mayor and President of the Australian Local Government Association (ALGA), Matt Burnett, was elected to the position for a four-year term at the LGAQ’s 128th Annual Conference.
Mayor Burnett thanked delegates at the conference and promised he would ‘not let them down’.
Mayor Burnett was elected to Gladstone council in 2000, then served five years as deputy mayor before being elected mayor in 2016. Born and raised in the Gladstone region, his family’s connection to the region extends over six generations.
Mayor Burnett is a former small business operator and qualified journalist, having started his own newspaper, The Port Curtis Post, at age 19.
At the LGAQ Conference, Mayor Burnett vowed that he would be an LGAQ ‘president for the entire State’ and that he would ‘always put Queensland councils first’.
