Donkey voting

Until about four days ago I wasn't aware there were local government elections.
I've lived in my current LGA for around eight years or thereabouts and have never had any interaction with the council or any prospective councillor.
So that made it a bit hard to know who I was voting for today.
My vote was effectively a donkey vote, which made it a bit pointless.
The one thing I will say about council elections is that they shouldn't be partisan, it is bad enough that politics gets in the way at state level we don't need it on councils.