Suzanne Carbone, Lawrence MoneyDecember 19, 2008
"GUESS who has donned the mayoral robes at Glen Eira? None other than the Florence Nightingale of municipal politics, Helen Mary Whiteside. Good old Hel has given an interview to the local rag in which Her Worship was asked her "most embarrassing moment". Replied Whiteside: "Too many to list."
Yeah, we can believe that. Remember when she was elected in 2005, swept to victory in Camden ward on the strength of her credentials in medicine? "As a registered nurse," she said in her Electoral Commission statement, "(I've) worked for the Department of Community Services … the time is now right … to contribute to the community."
But, although she had been a nurse once, she wasn't any longer. Whiteside was — this is embarrassing — a real estate sales chick for Marshall White. When Diary phoned her, she said: "I am not working as a nurse. There is no further comment." We asked if she was the same Helen Mary Whiteside who had her knuckles rapped by Consumer Affairs Victoria in 2003 for breaching the Estate Agents Act by "allowing material contained in a website to be displayed as she is not a licensed estate agent". Said Whiteside: "I'm not aware of that." Then she hung up. However, the Consumer Affairs website seemed aware and gave this assurance: "Ms Whiteside undertook to comply with the act requirements."
So many embarrassments, so little time".
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