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Jacob Saulwick

Jacob Saulwick is City Editor at The Sydney Morning Herald.

Christine Forster, who finished a distant second to Clover Moore for the City of Sydney election.

Defeated Liberal calls for voting revamp

The defeated Liberal candidate for Sydney lord mayor, Christine Forster, has called for changes to the operation of business voting laws in the city to make it less complicated for company directors to be enrolled.

Disappointing results: NSW Premier Mike Baird.

With Clover triumphant, Baird needs to change his stupid laws

One of Mike Baird's first responses to Saturday's local government election results should be to repeal part or all of the hugely expensive, ill-thought out, repugnant to democratic principles, business voting legislation for the City of Sydney.