Guy Rundle, Crikey. 17 June, 2009 It was always a dead cert that Julia Gillard’s light makeover of the Howard government’s building industry laws would get through caucus, despite the opposition of Doug Cameron and some other antediluvian throwbacks who believe that a labour party should believe in equality before the law for everybody, workers [...]
Read more →The government’s announcement of a community consultation process for the inner west harbour has been greeted with scepticism by NSW Greens MP Sylvia Hale, Greens Mayor of Leichhardt, Jamie Parker and Greens City of Sydney Councillor, Chris Harris. Sylvia Hale, Greens MP and Planning Spokesperson said: “This consultation process is a sham. The government promised [...]
Read more →The NSW Greens will not support any attempt by the Labor state government to introduce retrospective legislation to overcome the legal problems it faces with land deals it has signed with major party donors. (SMH 9/6/09 p.1) “The land deals the government entered into at Catherine Hill Bay and Huntlee are two of the shonkiest [...]
Read more →The government’s announcement that it will introduce legislation to protect tenants from immediate eviction when a landlord defaults on a mortgage was welcomed today by Sylvia Hale, NSW Greens MP and Housing spokesperson, who last month gave notice that she would introduce a private members bill to address the same issue. “The announcement that the [...]
Read more →SMH June 8, 2009 THE Department of Housing is leasing apartments in sought-after inner-city suburbs to private tenants for as much as $450 a week, despite a chronic shortage of public housing. A Government-owned property in Cowper Street, Wolloomooloo, was advertised by a real estate agent for private rental last month after it was left [...]
Read more →The community of Leichhardt joined together last Thursday night at a public meeting to protest over the cuts to Balmain Hospital that has resulted in the 24 hour casualty service wound back to 8am to 10pm and vowed to fight to restore this vital service. At the public meeting, members of the community spoke passionately [...]
Read more →The $2.4 million announced by the government to set up and administer regional planning panels should instead go directly to councils who still carry the workload of development assessments even though elected councils have lost their powers to determine most DAs. “Regional Planning Panels are just the latest step in this government’s march towards centralising [...]
Read more →SMH, May 28, 2009 INNER-CITY mayors have called the State Government’s bluff, agreeing to help fund a feasibility study into light rail throughout the inner west. The mayors, led by Sydney City’s Clover Moore and Leichhardt’s Jamie Parker, yesterday agreed to contribute up to $60,000 to examine the viability of extending the light rail from [...]
Read more →Mayor of Leichhardt, Cr Jamie Parker today called on the Minister for Roads the Hon. Michael Daley MP to stop playing politics over the Iron Cove Bridge duplication and blaming Leichhardt Council for the planning problems caused by the RTA. The Minister for Roads said on Channel 7 news last night that I’m calling on [...]
Read more →Leichhardt Council is looking for feedback from the community regarding holding an ‘Eco Festival’ event at White’s Creek, Lilyfield in 2010. At the April 2009 Ordinary meeting, Council adopted a resolution to investigate holding an environmental/sustainability focused festival at White’s Creek in 2010 as part of the events planning process for the 2009-2010 year. The [...]
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