Environment
Newhouses’s ex eyes Wentworth
Caroline Overington The Australian
THE glamorous ex-girlfriend of Labor’s candidate for the prized Sydney seat of Wentworth, Danielle Ecuyer, is planning to run against her former beau. And in the ultimate act of political sedition, she plans to direct her preferences away from him. Far from being a woman scorned, Ms Ecuyer, 44, said that she had become obsessed with the campaign to stop the Gunns pulp mill in northern Tasmania. Her former boyfriend, Labor candidate George Newhouse, has refused to condemn the mill. He stands to scoop preferences from Green candidates, who are running a campaign against the incumbent, Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Although she has not formally registered as a candidate, Ms Ecuyer said: “I think it’s time. I’ve been approached before and I’ve backed away, but this is serious. It’s about the planet.”
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