Grass Roots: Col Dunkley’s Guide to Local Government

Col Dunkley, Mayor of Arcadia Waters Council, is embarrassed by descriptions of himself as ‘one of the most visionary Mayors in Australia’ – even when those words come straight out of his own press release.

Col likes to dream and scheme and one of his greatest endeavours has been the publication of Grass Roots: Col Dunkley’s Guide to Local Government.

Col began this mammoth project by writing to most of the Mayors in Australia and seeking their creative input. Their tremendous response provides the inside story, from identifying your Council by its bus shelters to the truth about corruption.

It tells aspiring Councillors how to get elected and, once there, how to avoid ever being wrong … But Col’s guide is also for all those ordinary people who just want their garbage collected, someone at the Council to pay attention for a minute and DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT TREE THAT’S BLOCKING THEIR VIEW!

Geoffrey Atherden, writer of the Grass Roots ABC-TV series, teams up with Col Dunkley to put together this hilarious but acutely incisive satire on the machinations of local government.

…an hilarious but acutely incisive satire on the machinations of local government.