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COMMENT | Avoid looking at local govt election from racial perspective
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COMMENT | The issue of the local government election has always been racialised and made a sensitive topic.

Historically, the local government election has been linked with incidents of unrest related to the nation’s political stability, especially in the 1960s.

This eventually led to its suspension in 1965, and consequently its abolishment in 1976 as a result of the enactment of the Local Government Act 1976.

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