Bennelong gets complicated: @preciouspress reports

By Jack Sumner 15 July 2013 I am told that since his selection as Labor candidate for Bennelong, Jeff Salvestro-Martin has worked hard on the development of campaign plans. Whatever they are, even his most ardent supporters and certainly the ALP powerbrokers in Sussex Street hadn’t believed they would be successful. Then on 27 June Rudd […]

Bennelong: Preliminary skirmishing

By Jack Sumner July 8 2013 Murat owns Café Centro, which sits in the middle of Eastwood Plaza at the heart of the Bennelong electorate. As he made my long black this morning, I asked whether he’d seen much political activity in and around his shop. His reply – “no nothing yet”- indicated to me […]

@preciouspress: Will there be a battle for Bennelong?

View Larger Map This @NoFibs Electoral Map is kindly provided by Paul Davis Seat profile By Jack Sumner 1 July 2013 I never knew the grandfather who died down a Barnsley mine but I do remember fondly the Grandpa who had spun cotton, breathed its dust and died of byssinosis age 61. My Dad was a […]