Federal deputy Labor leader Tanya Plibersek dropped into the Shire Farmers’ Market on Saturday to support her big brother in his bid to be elected to Sutherland Shire Council.
Ms Plibersek said voters should support her brother Ray “because he’s a person of enormous integrity, who will do a great job”.
She is 12 years younger than her brother, who is Labor’s lead candidate in C Ward.
They grew up in Oyster Bay and he attended Jannali Boys’ High School, while she attended Jannali Girls’ High School, before the schools were amalgamated in 1992.
”The reaction was very good,” Ms Plibersek said after a couple of hours at the market.
”People are fed up with Sutherland Council.
“They are fed up with the lack of democracy, and the over-development that the council has allowed to take place.
“People move to the Sutherland Shire because they want a particular sort of environment and lifestyle, and this council’s doing everything it can to destroy that – people have had enough of it.
Mr Plibersek, a solicitor, was the council’s internal ombudsman for seven years until July 2013.
The office was closed when the Liberals gained control of the council and implemented a recommendation from a strategic review of the council's operations by PricewaterhouseCoopers.