She has got four decades of public service under her belt, 17 of them as Sydney’s lord mayor, but Clover Moore says her work is far from done.
That is why the independent is vying to extend her record tenure as lord mayor of Sydney on Saturday, when NSW residents head to the polls to vote in twice-delayed local council elections.
“We have been able to achieve so much but we have a lot more to do,” she told AAP.
She rattles off a list including achieving the council’s goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2035, growing green spaces across the city, improving access to social and affordable housing, and repairing the CBD’s economy and council’s own coffers post-Covid.
“That’s just for starters,” she said.
She is up against some familiar faces in an all-female field, with many of her opponents arguing it is time for a changing of the guard at town hall.
Moore was first elected as lord mayor in 2004, 16 years after she joined the state parliament in 1988.
She managed both responsibilities until 2012, when new legislation forced her to choose between the roles.
“We need a lord mayor for Sydney’s future, not our past,” Labor’s mayoral candidate, Linda Scott, says.
Scott has served as president of the Australian Local Government Association and as deputy mayor, but has twice been defeated by Moore in the mayoral race.
The Liberal candidate, Shauna Jarrett, is also campaigning on a pledge to “refresh Sydney”.
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