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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Simon McCarthy

Meet the most trusted person at Lake Macquarie council

Angela O'Brien has been the closest confidante of Lake Macquarie's highest political office for almost 40 years. Picture by Jonathan Carroll

She's helped an army spy who served in Vietnam, a chairman of the board, a Speaker of the House, and a NSW Labor minister. Independents, conservatives, and progressives have all relied on the same person at Lake Macquarie Council for advice, support, confidence, and guidance for four decades.

Empires rise and fall, and it's one thing to be in the room where it happens. It's another entirely to be the consummate confidante at the door through successive leaders' tenures, the person with the keys to the kingdom - the mayor's executive assistant.

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