{"id":308178,"date":"2025-11-25T17:52:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T17:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/308178\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T17:52:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T17:52:20","slug":"councillor-nice-jones-caught-out-trying-to-bill-ratepayers-for-drink-at-strip-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/308178\/","title":{"rendered":"Councillor Nice Jones caught out trying to bill ratepayers for drink at strip club"},"content":{"rendered":"

A councillor in a major local government in Perth\u2019s north will be made to complete an \u201cethical decision-making course\u201d after he attempted to bill ratepayers for drinks at an iconic Australian strip club while on a council-funded trip to Adelaide.<\/p>\n

City of Joondalup councillor Nige Jones had travelled to Adelaide for a conference in August when he stopped by Hindley Street\u2019s Crazy Horse Revue for a nightcap.<\/p>\n

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City of Joondalup councillor Nige Jones, inset, attempted to bill ratepayers for a drink at a strip club while on a city-funded trip to Adelaide.Credit: Facebook\/Google Maps<\/p>\n

The city\u2019s register of behavioural breach complaints said Jones was on city-funded travel to the Australasian Coasts and Ports Conference and went to the strip club after he finished for the day.<\/p>\n

The city said he tried to claim reimbursement for a drink he bought at the popular strip club, but a complaint was raised about the expenditure.<\/p>\n

Jones was asked to write a reflection about his actions, and, in a statement released to media on Tuesday, said he prepared a verbal statement for the council in October.<\/p>\n

\u201cI clearly explained how the event occurred to explain my genuine mistake,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Jones claimed he had finished dinner at an Adelaide restaurant and had a brief sleep at his hotel when he decided to go to a bar.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had restless sleep so decided to go out and have an alcoholic drink to help me relax,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI walked two minutes to the nearest bar \u2013 entered with no cover charge \u2013 and ordered a beer in a bar at 11.08pm named The Crazy Horse.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A councillor in a major local government in Perth\u2019s north will be made to complete an \u201cethical decision-making…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-308178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}