16 March 2006

Since when has Henley been part of Norwood?

Today's Advertiser reports"Liberals crunching back in key seats". The key seats are Hartley, where the Liberal sitting member has successfully defended a wafer thin margin for several elections by cultivating his constituents, and Norwood, where the incumbent Vini Ciccarello has responded by putting out an eleventh hour glossy leaflet enumerating all the "results" she "has delivered in Norwood as your voice in the Rann Government".

The leaflet lists 39 "results" and some additional "beneficiaries". Some of the beneficiaries, such as the Henley Water Polo Club ($2,500), are on the other side of town, while others such as the Eastside Business Enterprise Centre (a small business advisory group which has received $150,000 and is managed by Gullycorp, an affiliate of Tea Tree Gully Council) have a much lower profile in the electorate since their management and funding have been transferred elsewhere.

Ms Ciccarello in her rush to print seems to have misspelt Labor icon Don Dunstan's name: the map in her brochure lists no 30 as "Dunston Grove". Presumably this refers to the Dunstan Adventure Playground listed in the council's website. Perhaps none of the $15,000 she claims to have delivered there was allocated to checking the spelling on the signage.

She also claims to have delivered $510,440 to the City of Norwood, Payneham and St Peters Council . If this is correct I wonder why my rates have increased so much this year.




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