Toowoomba Regional Council - Deputy Mayor becomes Deputy Dawg ...

'Smoking Joe' Ramia seems to have secured a spot towards the bottom of the Councillor ladder.

Council meetings will be a different affair this time around.

It seems unlikely that he will be chosen as Deputy Mayor (others have their eye on that spot).

So Joe may have to resign himself to a spot down the end of the table while the regional Councillors generally ignore him.

It raises the question - will Joe stay for 4 years or will he resign and force a by-election?

He can always sit up at Picnic Point and watch his flagpole ...