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Opinion | Why Allan Robinson must step down

By Matt Endacott
Updated July 31 2019 - 10:47am, first published 10:30am
HATEFUL: Cr Robinson "is using his publicly-funded platform to deploy language that is routinely used to intimidate and assault".
HATEFUL: Cr Robinson "is using his publicly-funded platform to deploy language that is routinely used to intimidate and assault".

On Friday Lucy Turnbull was in town. Addressing a packed room in her capacity as Chief Commissioner of the Greater Sydney Commission (GSC), Turnbull emphasised the undervalued art of collaboration in city making. Speaking highly of Newcastle's transformation, Turnbull, more so than others, understands the importance of having robust and respectful civic debate. Outside the GSC, however, Turnbull has also had a front row seat for many a stoush where disunity, self-interest and bigotry, the key ingredients for downfall, have largely gone untrammelled.

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