Chris ‘Pineapple’ Hooper is due to be appointed after the winner of the mayoral election, Margaret Strelow, resigned over failing to declare Adani hospitality
The Queensland government says it will change the law to stop a bloke named Pineapple – a climate change activist who rides around town barefoot on a collection of vintage pushbikes – becoming the new mayor of Rockhampton.
On Monday the elected mayor, Margaret Strelow, resigned after a councillor conduct tribunal found she had engaged in misconduct by failing to update her register of interests to include hospitality received from the mining giant Adani.
