OCTOBER 20, 2020 \ STARWEEKLY.COM.AU
Ezi’s on top of the world
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Craigieburn’s Ezi Magbegor has capped off a stunning debut Women’s National Basketball Association season with a championship as the Seattle Storm clean sweeped the grand final series. With the entire WNBA competition played in a ‘bubble’ in Orlando, Magbegor made an instant impact with her new team. The 21-year-old, who was the youngest player in the bubble, managed to get court time in every game. The Storm finished the regular season in second place in their conference, before winning through to the grand final series against Las Vegas Aces. Magbegor joins some of the biggest names in Australian basketball such as Lauren Jackson, Penny Taylor and Belinda Snell, in wining an WNBA title. She is the second-youngest player ever to be part of a championship-winning side. Magbegor doesn’t have long to rest, with the Women’s National Basketball League season starting next month in north east Queensland where she will line up for the Melbourne Boomers. Tara Murray
Election turns ‘nasty’ By Tara Murray Two-time Hume mayor Carly Moore has hit back at accusations of any wrongdoings in her Hume council re-election campaign. Several candidates and Facebook pages have raised concerns about Cr Moore’s how-to-vote (HTV) cards, which vary depending on the suburb they are distributed in. Cr Moore admits she does have two different cards, saying it is common practice and she hasn’t broken any laws under the electoral act. All cards were authorised by a third-party and registered with an election officer. “I am aware of at least seven other candidates in the Hume election that have different types of HTV cards,” she said. “Those people
claiming any laws have been broken are totally wrong and again, I question their motives. Registration of HTVs is only required at attendance voting, but all the same you can register several HTV versions if you wish.” On Cr Moore’s how-to-vote cards, she preferences Chandra Bamunasinghe and Ravinder Kaur as number two and three, with the order dependant on which location the cards are distributed to. She said she wanted to support both candidates and decided to do so by distributing different cards. She said any accusation that either were just dummy candidates is disappointing. “Chandra and Ravinder also had this difficult decision and did the same,” Cr Moore said. “These accusations are very hurtful to
both Chandra and Ravinder who are running highly successful campaigns that they are self funding. “Chandra has previously served as a councillor and deputy mayor of Hume City Council. Any suggestion he is doing anything other than trying to get himself elected is quite frankly ridiculous.” Cr Moore, who was the first person elected in the Aitken ward last election, said the election campaign had been nasty, with many of the comments coming from anonymous social media pages. She is looking at pursuing the appropriate action for online content that she believes is defamatory. “I feel I have been deliberately targeted,
including with the online lies. “There is a husband and wife who are running in the same ward, with one of them indicating to preference the other. There is a candidate in another ward who is authorising another candidate’s material that suggests putting him number two. There are two candidates in another ward using identical word for word slabs of text who are preferencing each other one and two …” Meadow Valley ward candidate, Phillip Di Biase has been caught up in controversy after appearing to threaten another candidate in a group email. Mr Di Biase, who is running on a campaign about family violence, did not respond to media inquiries about the email.
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