Clover Moore elected Sydney lord mayor for sixth term
By the time Moore finishes her sixth term she will have run Town Hall for a quarter of a century. It’s an extraordinarily long innings in anyone’s book; some people will welcome the consistency, others will decry the longevity.
The challenge will be to make this term about new ideas, rather than legacy protection. The election campaign just gone, while uninspiring in some ways, did pull focus on the challenges inner Sydney faces – particularly people being priced out, and the dire state of some of our high streets.
Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore, pictured prior to the local government elections.Credit: Wolter Peeters
Councils are limited in what they can do about these big-ticket items, but the City has money and power, and the next council – whoever is on it – ought to get as active as it can to try to fix things.
Another four years also gives Moore the opportunity to lock in a successor, something she has thus far shied away from doing. In recent interviews she has hinted the time might finally be coming.
When Moore does eventually leave office, the dynamic of the race will change dramatically; it will be on for one and all. Saturday’s results suggest even then, it won’t necessarily be easy for the major parties to take back the city.
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