Yvonne Weldon has already made history. Now she’s out to shake up Sydney’s mayoral race

Sydney city councillor Yvonne Weldon says she would drop the ‘lord’ from the title if elected mayor. Photograph: Andrew Quilty

Yvonne Weldon’s two-year-old grandson told his friends “that’s my nin” when he saw her face on a corflute outside his Paddington preschool.

That was in 2021, just weeks before Weldon’s election as the first Aboriginal councillor for the City of Sydney in its 180-year history.