The first port Jackson Greens meeting for the year will be held on Monday, February 13 in the meeting rooms at Leichhardt Town Hall. The meeting commences at 7pm and will finish no later than 9pm. All members are welcome to attend. The Guest speaker for this meeting will be Professor Frank Stilwell who will [...]
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Balmain Greens MP Jamie Parker continues to lead the campaign to stop the overdevelopment of what was previously the Harold Park paceway. Jamie Parker will chair a public meeting next week ahead of the City of Sydney’s Central Sydney Planning Committee decision about the Harold Park development. This meeting will be one of the last [...]
Read more →Greens MP Jamie Parker has been working closely with community groups and residents to oppose the privatisation of the previously publicly owned site at Cowper St, Glebe. This public housing estate at Cowper and Elger Streets was demolished earlier this year with over 50% of the new dwellings to be privately owned. Jamie will join [...]
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Greens NSW MP and Energy spokesperson John Kaye’s is convening a workshop on the Greens’ proposed Zero Carbon NSW legislation. The workshop will be held on Sunday 5th February from 1 pm to 4:30 pm at the Greens NSW office at 19 Eve St, Erskineville. All Greens members are welcome to attend and participate in [...]
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NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell’s chief bureaucrat is leading TAFE NSW down the same path that resulted in the collapse of public vocational education and training in Victoria and South Australia, according to Greens MP John Kaye. Greens NSW MP John Kaye said: “The devastation of public vocational education training in other states is being ignored. [...]
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Leichhardt Council’s complete Callan Park Master Plan is now abailable on council’s web site as an eBook. Readers can flick through the pages, download sections or zoom in on specific pages, pictures or information. The link below leads directly to the eBook on council’s web site. Leichhardt Council – Callan Park Master Plan Related Links: [...]
Read more →A mentally ill man in Long Bay Prison Hospital is being forcibly injected as part of his treatment. When his tutor, Brett Collins of Justice Action, unsuccessfully sought to review the man’s involuntary treatment regime in the Supreme Court the NSW government obtained a $36,000 costs order against him. Attorney General Greg Smith is rejecting [...]
Read more →As a result of the efforts of Greens Mayor of Leichhardt Cr Rochelle Porteous the NSW Roads and Maritime Services (former RTA) have agreed to extend the consultation period for the Victoria Road clearway project. This project proposes to remove 44 parking spaces from various locations around Rozelle forcing cars to park in nearby local [...]
Read more →Patients dumped from hospital without community care The Greens are calling for urgent action on the scandalous lack of care available to patients discharged from an acute mental health bed. Answers to Budget Estimates questions put on notice submitted by Greens NSW MP John Kaye showed that in 2010/11, only 57 percent of patients discharged [...]
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It gave me great pleasure last week to attend Leichhardt Council’s Volunteers Christmas Party, which celebrated the incredible contribution volunteers made to Council and the l.elchhardt community over the last year. Volunteering is growing in Australia, with the number volunteering doubling from 1995 to 2010. Around 38% of the adult population – 6.4 million people [...]
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Australia’s oral health is poor and getting worse. Less than half of Australians have favourable oral health and dental visiting patterns. This is largely due to the high cost of dental treatment. 60% of dental care is paid for out-of-pocket, with the result that a third of people say they can’t afford to go to [...]
Read more →44 parking spaces are set to be lost from the Rozelle business district, with the NSW State Government announcing a last minute pre-Christmas consultation on the creation of a Victoria Road clearway. The NSW Roads and Maritime Agency has given Council and the community just two weeks to comment on the proposal, which is likely [...]
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