Colourful -described as evergreen – ALP politician, Vini Ciccarello, came a bummer in the recent South Australian election . A well known identity in trendy Norwood where she got about on a bicycle before going into politics, she was well known to people in Don Dunstan’s old stamping ground .
It was reported that her initial winning election campaign included a friendly pinch on the derriere of her many friends . It was even suggested that “ Bomber ” Beazley should have incorporated Vini's bottom pinching in his desperate , unsuccessful campaign to become the PM. That Jane Lomax –Smith , the Education Minister , also got the axe with what at first was said to be a massive 20 percent swing, was most surprising.
Another woman to be swept away by the political tide was the National Party's , Karlene Maywald ,a cabinet member in the Rann Government, with responsibility for the River Murray .
