Last year, while a previously complacent Sydney was struggling through a Melbourne-like lockdown, friends of a popular but eccentric Sydney Morning Herald columnist, Elizabeth Farrelly, made a suggestion: how about she join the Labor Party and enter politics?
The idea, which Farrelly embraced, gave the 64-year-old New Zealand-born architectural and urban planning critic a two-month lesson in political reality.
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Aaron Patrick is the senior correspondent. He writes about politics and business from the Sydney newsroom. Email Aaron at apatrick@afr.com
