Ted Mack is plotting the defeat of another Liberal Party candidate in North Sydney.
Former independent MP Ted Mack will steer Stephen Ruff's campaign in December's North Sydney byelection.Photo: Rick Stevens
The former federal MP, who twice won the blue-ribbon Liberal seat as an independent, is not contesting the upcoming byelection himself but will steer the campaign of Dr Stephen Ruff, a longtime senior orthopaedic surgeon at Royal North Shore Hospital.
Ted Mack working to install an Independent in Joe Hockey's old seatFormer West German chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who died Tuesday aged 96, was an inveterate European, master of realpolitik, and straight-talking elder statesman who commanded respect and headlines into his twilight years.
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