Five female candidates look set to contest the prized role of Sydney lord mayor in September. For a state like NSW, with the lowest number of women in elected local government, that's a good thing. But it could be a cat fight | pitthen Private Sydney
wife of Energy and Emissions Reduction Minister. Despite her protestations that she won't contest any Sydney-based mayoral race as she lives in Goulburn, senior Liberal Party sources say she may still throw her Akubra in the right-wing ring.
Earlier this month, the Australian Federal Police dropped its investigation into her politician husband over doctored documents aimed to damage the climate change credentials of her could-be competitor lord mayorThe incumbent independent Cr Moore, 75 this year, enjoys the same sort of popularity as her fellow septuagenarian independent, 78-year-oldwho won the crucial New Hampshire primaries in the United States this week. While not confirmed as a candidate, Cr Moore is widely tipped to attempt to extend her tenure to 20 years in the top job at the City of Sydney. It's in the independent ranks where the fight is likely to be most fierce, given the falling out between Cr Moore and her former independent ticket mateThe political aspirations of the short-lived independent member for Wentworth and former Australian Medical Association president are no secret. But it may not be smooth sailing for her if she contests the Sydney lord mayoral race, according to the residents of Bundeena where she now owns a holiday house, and is again testing the waters.were already known as "self appointed mayors" in this sleepy hamlet in the Royal National Park before they decamped for a Bowral weekender in 2016. Now locals are bracing themselves for their return. As revealed by PS at the end of last year the two bought a $3.25 million waterfront property on Bundeena's Hordern's Beach. Since the 1990s, a four-knot speed limit sign has been on the beach at the front of their new house to help protect the local community and to address existing concerns about speeding vessels in the Port Hacking waterway. It was erected along with three others, after locals campaigned in the wake of an accident when a child was badly injured by a speeding jet ski.PS can reveal the sign at the front of the new Stricker-Phelps abode has been removed since they purchased the property and will be relocated to a nearby council reserve pending Sutherland Shire Council approval. "There was a long-term agreement between NSW Maritime and the former home owner for the middle sign to be placed on their private property. "Recent new owners of the property have requested the sign be moved to another location," a spokesman for the Department of Transport said.George Harrison piping up on an online forum on the matter to defend the move from private to public land: "I think it is unfair and unwelcoming to use such an issue to criticise anyone."As previously reported here when the Stricker-Phelps owned another property on nearby Gunyah Beach, the couple had some disputes with locals about dog poo pick-up on the beach in front of their home. They also built a boat ramp near their beach house which locals used to take great delight in sitting on the end of, some going so far as to picnic on the sacred sandstone. Another issue which did not endear the two to Bundanesians, is they would bring their own produce purchased from Potts Point to their weekend idyll, rather than shop locally. "This is a local no-no as everyone relies on the local IGA and it's actually very good. It's a two-way thing of mutual survival and benefit," several Deep Throats chorused. Many will be happy if Ms Phelps is too busy on the city lord mayoral hustings, to cast her shadow – and that of Ms Stricker's – over this corner of the Shire before the September election., whose middle Maori name means "to set on fire" stars as the devil in the Australian Opera'sWho could forget when the arts world was set ablaze with the smouldering photos of him kissing his
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