As Sydney enters its final fortnight of local council election campaigning, some tactics have turned ugly.
Campaign corflutes have been slashed and burned across different local government areas and acts of skulduggery and trickery performed in others, as Sydney’s 1437 council candidates enter the final fortnight of campaigning ahead of the September local government elections.
Left and right: the sliced-up corflute posters around Maroubra Junction. Centre: the only posters left standing.At Maroubra Junction, in the city’s south-east, dozens of posters for Labor and Greens candidates for Randwick City Council were slashed and ripped off poles between late on Tuesday night and early on Wednesday morning. It was only signs for Liberal councillor Daniel Rosenfeld that were left untouched. Again, the culprits have not been identified.
“I’ve not seen this before, at this level. It feels particularly aggressive and divisive, and it’s really meant to put you off. It’s intended to intimidate, really.” Web domain records show willoughbycommunityindependents.com – no “.au” – was registered less than three weeks ago, but the owner of the domain has been hidden.
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