Published: March 05, 2019
Michael McGowan looks at how the friction between urban revitalisation and overdevelopment is dividing opinion
• Outer Sydney’s growing pains capture voters’ anger
On a scraggly, out-of-the way property near an industrial lot in Morisset on the New South Wales central coast, the independent MP for Lake Macquarie, Greg Piper, is tending to his bees.
A self-described left-leaning pragmatist who won the seat in 2007 campaigning against a proposal for an open-cut coal mine in the electorate, Piper may have a profound influence on the state’s politics after 23 March if polls suggesting the likelihood of a minority government prove correct.
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