SHE has 280 pairs of shoes and a passion for racehorses.
Meet Mayor Lilliane Brady whose held Cobar Shire council’s top job for 15 years.
She reckons she’s made about $100,000 on her racehorse Fallon Street.
“I bought him two years ago,” she told The Land at council chambers yesterday.
“My husband died four years ago and someone said to me ‘you’re not coping, you need a racehorse’.
“So I bought one.”
Cr Brady said when she arrived in Cobar from Sydney 44 years ago, she thought it was a “God-forsaken place”. But she’s loved living there ever since and has completed 30 years of public service.
The Land met Cr Brady yesterday on our tour of Kevin Humphries Barwon electorate.
He called into an extraordinary meeting to discuss issue such as the council’s new economic taskforce, which aims to address some of the issues of fly-in-fly-out workers and to find out how it can encourage families to instead live in the area.
Roads were another big agenda item with the council general manager claiming the council area had the lowest per kilometre grant in the State.
Today, The Land is in Bourke and will be heading to Brewarrina to meet with representatives from Aussie Helpers.
Jenna Cairney
Deputy editor of The Land.
Deputy editor of The Land.
