Rats in the Ranks

Every September Sydney´s inner suburban Leichhardt council re-elects its mayor. Incumbent Larry Hand was popular with the citizenry but they didn´t vote for mayor... the 12 councillors did... and after three years of Larry at least four councillors were after his job. When filmmakers Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson settled in a at Leichhardt council in early 1994, the knives were already being sharpened. A royal battle 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 it on film. Ambition, Courage, envy, hatred, loyalty, betrayal, disaster, triumph.. in other words, a classic study of politics.