Community festival turns nasty!

A normally subdued Sydney community festival today turned into a rowdy – and somewhat nasty – political rally when swamped by hundreds of supporters of Prime Minister John Howard and Labor challenger Maxine McKew.

Mr Howard and Ms McKew both turned up today at the Granny Smith Festival in Eastwood, in Mr Howard’s marginal seat of Bennelong, which Ms McKew hopes to steal from him at the November 24 election.

Brandishing placards and branded balloons the pair’s supporters turned the normally innocuous event about apples, into a spirited, vocal battle of political creeds.

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