weekender the inner city FRI 21 MAR 2014 • Issue 179
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From Mayor to MP? Jo Haylen preselected by Labor to contest the 2015 State election CHRIS CONNOLLY
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Fair Trading crackdown Cash back or just a cash grab? p.8
arrickville Mayor Jo Haylen has been preselected as Labor’s candidate for the new seat of Summer Hill at next year’s state election. Cr Haylen has lived in the local area for 10 years and was elected Mayor last year. She first became politically active while still at school in the late 90s when Pauline Hanson was in the media spotlight. “My best friends at school had parents who came from all over the globe. Racism hurt my friends, and that hurt me,” she said. “We decided to act. I led a small but determined delegation of students from my school to an antiracism protest in the city, and that’s where my activism began.” She lives in Marrickville with her husband Garth and works part-time at the University of Sydney as well as performing her mayoral responsibilities. Cr Haylen says her achievements on Council include the creation of Council’s street party scheme, the introduction of an Architectural Excellence Panel, and upgrades to local parks including the trial of off-leash areas. The new state seat of Summer Hill was created during a recent redistribution (which abolished the old seat of Marrickville) and will include most of Marrickville, Dulwich Hill, Summer Hill, Ashfield and Haberfield. At this stage, neither the Liberal Party nor the Greens Party have preselected candidates for the seat although both are expected to do so in the next few months.
Mayor Haylen will contest the 2015 State election in the seat of Summer Hill
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