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For 40 years, Victor Macri has spent five days a week cutting hair at Fernando’s Hair, the business his father started in Marrickville in 1960.

A dispute with local councillors over a building matter prompted Macri to run as an independent for the former Marrickville Council – which was later merged to form the Inner West Council – in 2004.

But the veteran councillor still spends Tuesday to Saturday giving haircuts with an ear to the ground.

“That’s how I keep in contact with the community,” Macri says. “I get all the complaints.”

He is amon…

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