Urban photographer, Tim Ritchie, takes to his bicycle every morning scouting out Sydney’s hidden delights @timritchie
city glimpses
Connecting Trafalgar and Bedford Streets and Enmore and Stanmore, this tunnel passes under the rail lines and has been augmented by locals painting the lights for a cheery effect.
FROM THE VAULT
AUTUMN 2004
Ahead of the upcoming City of Sydney election, Charlie Richardson assessed the likely outcome. Ms Moore is a hard-working, highly experienced and tenacious politician. She is seen — even by Labor branch members — as a true independent, uninfluenced by developers. Ms Moore has rapidly assembled a team of six candidates to run for council and declared she might run for mayor. This must be a nightmare scenario for Labor. Many see Ms Moore as the favourite to win. There are ten positions to be filled on the new council, including the mayor’s. It is unlikely that Ms Moore’s team would all be elected. However, there are other independents running, as well as the Greens. There is every possibility that an alliance of Clover Moore’s team of independents, other independents and the Greens could form a majority on council. It seems unlikely that Labor will control the mayor’s position and have a majority of councillors. It may be that Clover Moore wins the mayoralty but also without the majority of councillors. Whichever way, a grouping of Greens, independents, lefty-Labor, and the odd Civic Reform councillors will have voting patterns that would be difficult to predict, and there would be many interesting debates. We can be sure that the goings on at Town Hall will have us all agog. EDITOR’S NOTE: Charlie’s 2004 election assessment proved pretty much correct. Clover
Moore was elected mayor. And City councillors comprised of a mix of four independents, three Labor, one Green and a Liberal.
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