The council’s first Aboriginal councillor in it’s 180-year history is driven by a passion to ‘cycle change’ the city
Yvonne Weldon’s two-year-old grandson told his friends “that’s my nin” when he saw her face on a corflute outside his Paddington preschool.“If that was normal for him when he’s two, imagine what could be normal for him when he’s 20,” Weldon says.
But if she does secure an upset victory, Weldon would be mayor, electing to drop the “lord” from the title. She now sits alongside them in the chamber presided over by Moore, who Weldon says has been in office for too long.In May, 78-year-old Moore announced she would seek a record sixth term this year, responding defiantly to those who argued it was time for her to vacate the office.
She wants to double the city’s affordable housing fund and force developers to include a percentage – maybe 5% – as social and affordable housing for those who most need it, rather than simply collecting a levy.
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