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Showing: Last 12 months · 6 Nov 2025 to 6 Nov 2026
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Showing Last 12 months (6 Nov 2025 to 6 Nov 2026).
Speaking Time
Total Speaking Time
Pet Phrases & Platitudes
The phrases we keep an ear on in the chamber, counted across councillor speech in the meeting transcripts over the past 12 months. Staff and public speakers are not counted.
“Point of order”
68 mentions across all councillors over the past 12 months
 Amelia Lorentson | ×26 |
 Brian Stockwell | ×21 |
 Frank Wilkie | ×10 |
 Jessica Phillips | ×7 |
 Karen Finzel | ×2 |
 Nicola Wilson | ×2 |
 Tom Wegener | ×0 |
“Community”
1,600 mentions across all councillors over the past 12 months
| Amelia Lorentson | ×467 |
| Frank Wilkie | ×280 |
| Karen Finzel | ×262 |
| Jessica Phillips | ×256 |
| Brian Stockwell | ×191 |
| Nicola Wilson | ×108 |
| Tom Wegener | ×36 |
“I will”
189 mentions across all councillors over the past 12 months
| Jessica Phillips | ×50 |
| Amelia Lorentson | ×49 |
| Brian Stockwell | ×36 |
| Frank Wilkie | ×21 |
| Nicola Wilson | ×18 |
| Karen Finzel | ×12 |
| Tom Wegener | ×3 |
“STA”
13 mentions across all councillors over the past 12 months
| Frank Wilkie | ×4 |
| Amelia Lorentson | ×3 |
| Nicola Wilson | ×3 |
| Jessica Phillips | ×2 |
| Tom Wegener | ×1 |
| Brian Stockwell | ×0 |
| Karen Finzel | ×0 |
Attendance
Ordinary, General Committee and Special meetings each councillor attended over the past 12 months, from the official attendance record in each meeting's minutes.
Attendance Record
| Councillor | Attendance | Apologies | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Karen Finzel | Present 26 of 26 | 0 apologies | 100% |
| Jessica Phillips | Present 25 of 26 | 1 apology | 96% |
| Nicola Wilson | Present 25 of 26 | 1 apology | 96% |
| Tom Wegener | Present 25 of 26 | 1 apology | 96% |
| Amelia Lorentson | Present 24 of 26 | 2 apologies | 92% |
| Frank Wilkie | Present 24 of 26 | 2 apologies | 92% |
| Brian Stockwell | Present 24 of 26 | 2 apologies | 92% |
Ordinary, General Committee and Special meetings (26 in this period), which every councillor is expected to attend. The Planning & Environment and Services & Organisation committees had only some councillors as members, so they are not counted.
Chairing
Who chaired the meetings over the past 12 months. The chair runs proceedings and speaks between every item.
Meetings Chaired
Contributions
How many times each councillor spoke over the past 12 months, and the longest single contributions.
Contributions per Councillor
Longest Single Contributions
| # | Councillor | Meeting | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amelia Lorentson | Special Meeting, 23 June 2026 | 10 min |
| 2 | Frank Wilkie chaired this meeting | Ordinary Meeting, 15 October 2026 | 9 min |
| 3 | Amelia Lorentson | General Committee Meeting, 7 July 2026 | 9 min |
| 4 | Amelia Lorentson | Ordinary Meeting, 22 January 2026 | 9 min |
| 5 | Jessica Phillips | Special Meeting, 23 June 2026 | 8 min |
| 6 | Amelia Lorentson | Ordinary Meeting, 19 February 2026 | 8 min |
| 7 | Frank Wilkie chaired this meeting | Ordinary Meeting, 16 July 2026 | 8 min |
| 8 | Amelia Lorentson | General Committee Meeting, 11 August 2026 | 8 min |
| 9 | Amelia Lorentson | General Committee Meeting, 16 February 2026 | 7 min |
| 10 | Frank Wilkie chaired this meeting | Special Meeting, 23 June 2026 | 7 min |
Each link opens the exact spot in the meeting transcript.
Chamber Airtime Composition
Who does the talking over the past 12 months: all attributed speech in the AI transcripts, split between councillors (chairing included), named council staff (the executive listed in each meeting header), named public speakers, and voices the transcription could not identify. Attribution is automated and can be wrong.
Public Question Time
35 public questions were put to Council across 8 meetings over the past 12 months, from the minutes’ Public Question Time sections.
Most Frequent Questioners
- Pat Spicer ×8
- Brian O'Connor ×4
- Susan Dewar ×2
- Andy Taylor ×2
- Rhea Den Braasem ×2
- John Spencer ×2
- Mary Perry ×2
- Denise Phipps ×2
Names as recorded in the official public minutes. Residents asking questions of their council is the transparency process working.
Hot Topics
Which of the tracked topics saw the most discussion over the past 12 months.
Segments per Hot Topic
Meetings
The meetings behind these numbers, by type and length.
By Meeting Type
| Meeting type | Held | Avg length | Longest |
|---|---|---|---|
| General Committee | 12 | 3h 52m | General Committee Meeting, 11 August 2026 (7h 13m) |
| Ordinary | 12 | 3h 4m | Ordinary Meeting, 16 July 2026 (6h 34m) |
| Services & Organisation | 5 | 54m | Services & Organisation Committee Meeting, 10 February 2026 (1h 22m) |
| Planning & Environment | 5 | 1h 1m | Planning & Environment Committee Meeting, 10 February 2026 (1h 52m) |
| Special | 2 | 53m | Special Meeting, 23 June 2026 (1h 20m) |
About This Data
Every number on this page is computed from three sources, each used for what it is authoritative about, and every number is at most one click from the public record it came from.
- Meeting transcripts feed speaking time, contributions, phrase counts and topics. Transcription and speaker attribution are machine-assisted and can be wrong. Speaking time includes chairing, which inflates the chair's share.
- Meeting headers (the published attendance record) feed attendance, apologies and chairing. These are structured facts, not transcript inference. Attendance and apologies count the Ordinary, General Committee and Special meetings every councillor is expected to attend; chairing and every other figure count all meeting types.
- Official minutes (the statutory record) feed motions, named division votes, conflict-of-interest declarations and transparency counters. Extraction is automated against the statutory wording and can miss or mis-parse entries; each extracted record links to the official minutes so it can be verified at the source.
A phrase count is not a formal declaration or ruling. A conflict-of-interest declaration is the transparency process working, not an accusation. Motion and voting figures count what the minutes record; named For/Against divisions became routine practice around 2025, so earlier years understate division detail.
A notified motion is an item a councillor puts on the agenda themselves. These are counted from the minutes' "Notified Motions" section, one per agenda item, credited to the councillor who moved it. Amendments and restatements of the same item are not counted again, and a conflict-of-interest determination on the item is not treated as authorship. The agenda-item total also includes notices not formally moved. Where the minutes explicitly record a withdrawal before movement, it is shown separately and is not credited to a councillor as a motion moved or counted as a vote.
Figures for this view cover 2025-11-06 to 2026-11-06.