A Bill to provide more time for mayors and councillors that failed to provide disclosure returns has passed the House of Assembly and is due for debate in the Legislative Council in late February 2023. The local government minister Geoff Brock is adamant the candidates received plenty of notice of their donation disclosure obligations but says the extension of time proposed by the Bill is not a precedent for other disclosure failures by elected representatives. Some 45 mayors or councillors presently are declared invalid winners from November's local government elections until - or if - the Bill passes, but will again be invalid if they fail the 13th hour bid to clear up what donations, if any, they received during the election campaign.