The only sentiment two NSW councillors could agree on at its most recent meeting was simple: "councillors need to grow up".
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Mayor Amanda Findley and Councillor Andrew Guile clashed heatedly during this week's Shoalhaven City Council meeting on the NSW South Coast.
The councillors engaged in a series of slanging matches over the course of the ordinary meeting, with Cr Guile kicking off early in the piece.
"Most people can probably do your job better than you can," he told the Mayor.
Earlier in the evening he had told her she "always personalises things."
"As leaders we should be working for good outcomes, not playing petty politics," she said.
"To the members of our community who have suffered this week, I am deeply sorry. The people of the Shoalhaven are sick of this and sick of us.
"It is a toxic, misogynistic, bullying, racist environment."
Cr Guile hit back, and claimed that it was the "most appalling" speech he had ever heard in the council chamber.
He did, however, acknowledge that councillors need to "grow up".
The exchange echoed a meeting in 2015, where both Cr Findley and Cr Guile labelled the chamber environment "bullying and toxic".