Mayor Sarah Dixson faces backlash after looking up pro-housing advocate’s home address

A fiery five-hour council meeting took a personal turn when the Woollahra mayor revealed she looked up the value of a pro-housing advocate’s home during a debate over plans to add 9400 homes to Sydney’s eastern suburbs.

There was only one item on the agenda at Woollahra Council’s extraordinary meeting on Wednesday night – to finalise how the council would respond to the most significant rezoning of the eastern suburbs in decades. Under state government plans unveiled last month, housing density would be...