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Remo Nogarotto, a Labor candidate in the 1983 Fairfield Council election, failed on Saturday to beat Bronwyn Bishop in the preselection race for Mackellar. Was Mr Nogarotto harshly treated because of his past?
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"This is the most incompetent election campaign that the Liberal Party has run in living memory." Mr Collins said Mr Nogarotto should take responsibility for his actions. "The state director should resign, he should have offered his resignation on Saturday night," he said.
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State director of the Liberal Party in New South Wales, REMO NOGAROTTO, says he'll be backing Dr HEWSON's bid for soccer's top job.
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The soccer players' union, the Professional Footballers Association, has sued the Northern Spirit club for breaching freedom of association laws after former NSW Liberal Party director Remo Nogarotto apparently sacked two players who were association delegates. Mr Nogarotto, the club's chairman, allegedly angrily told the two players they would no longer play for the club after the association challenged him about the club's failure to pay players' entitlements.
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