Darradong Local Council is an Australian television sitcom that first screened on 7mate and 7plus from 26 October to 23 November 2023.
Written, produced and directed by Paul Fenech, the series follows a group of corrupt council workers in the fictional Shire of Darradong.
Set in the fictional Shire of Darradong, located in New South Wales,[1] the series follows the lives and interactions of a group of corrupt and lazy council workers.
[7] In May 2023, Fenech described his new series as being "all about the corruption, lazy council workers, the stuff you see in the news all the time.
"[8] In an interview published a month before the series went to air, James Liotta, who plays non-binary character Doris "Jamo" Debono, described the show as one that "deals with government and corruption and all the red tape that councils get involved in that they shouldn't.
"[6] Liotta described his character as "one of the core staff members who goes to Thailand and then comes back gender neutral, so everyone has to tippy-toe around me.
[12] However, David Knox acknowledged that, as the episodes were screened in a late-night timeslot, "they can't be expected to draw big crowds".
A month before the airing of the first episode, Wagga Wagga councillor Richard Foley was enthusiastic about the series, while his colleague Councillor Georgie Davies believed that the series negatively portrayed council workers as lazy when the opposite was true.
He also criticised Fenech's character Fox, "his dumbest portrayal yet", who possesses "a nastiness [...] that isn't translating into laughs".
Mercado concluded by writing that: "The wild punch-ups and sex scandals can stay, but let's see some sharper satire and some more work on those political parties.