Published: March 20, 2019
Veteran Janelle Saffin and rookie Asren Pugh hope to snare two marginal northern rivers seats from Nationals and Greens
Janelle Saffin could have been forgiven for eschewing the opportunity to stand for the seat of Lismore at this weekend’s New South Wales election.
After a political career spanning nearly 30 years, including consecutive defeats at the last two federal elections, winning the seat for Labor was going to require a Rocky-like resurrection. But as she sat at home in the aftermath of the 2017 floods that devastated Lismore’s town centre, the 64-year-old realised there was still fire in the belly.
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