https://mrqe.com Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:21:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png https://mrqe.com 32 32 https://mrqe.com/movie/rats-in-the-ranks-m100044595/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/rats-in-the-ranks-m100044595/ Every September Sydney’s inner-suburban Leichhardt Council re-elects it mayor. Incumbent Larry Hand was popular with the citizenry but they don’t vote for mayor – the 12 councillors do – and after three years of Larry, at least four councillors were after his job. When film-makers Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson settled in at Leichhardt Council in early 1994 the knives were already being sharpened. A battle royal was in the making, and so it came to pass. By the end of September Larry had fought the fight of his life, with Connolly and Anderson documenting every bit of it on film. Ambition, courage, envy, hatred, loyalty, betrayal, disaster, triumph… in other words, a classic study in politics.

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