Bathurst go-kart track: Labor MLC Mark Buttigieg says Farraway is ‘running scared’ | Western Advocate

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BATHURST-based MLC Sam Farraway has been accused of running scared on the issue of a go-kart track planned for the top of Mount Panorama, with an opposition Upper House member calling on him to make his position clear to the people of Bathurst. Labor MLC Mark Buttigieg was in the Legislative Council chamber last Wednesday when a private motion by The Greens’ David Shoebridge asking the Upper House to confirm its support for finding a new location for the track was tabled. There was no debate or discussion of the motion, and no objections raised within the chamber, so the motion was adopted as formal house business and Mr Shoebridge released a statement to the media saying parliament had “united” against a track in…