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Old 26th Feb 2008, 22:59
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LewC
 
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The delayed start is interesting.Local Government Elections will take place in NSW in September and the Greens are poised to win outright control of Marrickville Council,the area which encompasses most of the Grayndler Federal electorate held by Minister Albanese as well as virtually all of the Marrickville State electorate held by Mrs.Albanese (Carmel Tebbutt).As the Greens are the only Party that can knock Albo and his missus off their very comfortable perches its very much in their own interest that the Greens don't get control of the Council and thus gain a power base from which to attack the Federal and State Seats.The closure of 07/25 in April would have been enough to guarantee a wipeout of the Labor Councillors,delaying it until after the Election is no happy coincidence and may help,but will it be enough? I just hope that no one is sufficiently naive to think that any of this toing and froing has anything at all to do with aircraft safety.Much more important issues are at stake.
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