You work hard, right? You wake up early, go to work, pay your taxes, and do your part. But what if your elected representative—who claims to be working just as hard, if not harder—wasn’t actually doing the job you elected them to do? That’s the question Mayor Philip Penfold is asking of Meryl Swanson, the federal MP for Paterson. And it’s a fair one.
Swanson says she spends “every waking moment and some of the sleeping moments” working for her constituents. But here’s the problem: people in Maitland and Port Stephens are saying they don’t see her. Their concerns go unanswered. So where is she? That’s what Penfold wants to know, and he’s got a simple solution—release the diary.
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