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Find More Stories   Ted Mack  Ted Mack  Ted Mack is credited by
Wikipedia as "the only person ever to have been elected and re-
elected as an independent to local, state and federal government
in Australia".  While Mayor of North Sydney (1980-88) Mack sold
the mayoral car and set out to improve accountability. In 1981
he was elected to the seat of North Sydney in the NSW
Legislative Assembly. He served until 1988 retiring days before
he would have qualified for a parliamentary pension, as a
statement against the excesses of public political office.  In
1990 he won the federal seat of North Sydney defeating the
Liberal party incumbent. As an independent he opposed the Gulf
war, the sale of Qantas and the nuclear industry.  Stories by
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