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How long is our lockdown?

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by Maria Taylor - 28/09/202105/10/2021

IF, LIKE ME, you live ‘from Canberra to the coast’ (or somewhere around the capital or along the coast), and you feel like the forgotten people in regard to COVID and lockdown information: How much longer? may come to mind. It’s still pretty fuzzy how long our LGA(s) will be locked

South coast home-owners urge state intervention to save bushland

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by Dalmeny Matters - 03/09/202103/09/2021

COMMUNITY GROUP DALMENY Matters has contacted The Hon Rob Stokes, Minister for Planning and Public Spaces, to ask for assistance in preventing the clearing of native bushland in light of the importance of unburnt habitat since the bushfires. Eurobodalla Shire Council’s decision to sell public land in Dalmeny for clearing and

Bungendore Park to high school grounds? Unhappy residents tell why this is a bad (and unnecessary) plan.

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by Angie Angel with Bungendore Park Action Group - 20/05/202121/05/2021

THE CURRENT NSW State political climate for heritage preservation is not very helpful, as journalist Elizabeth Farrelly chronicled in various articles in The Sydney Morning Herald recently. Her article ‘In Don Harwin’s Sydney, what should be a project of sacred trust is a problem to be fixed’ is a more recent

Major parties vie for Jerra ‘road vote’ — public transport ignored (again)

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by QPRC Council Watch - 05/03/201905/03/2019

THE PERENNIAL ISSUE of roads and funding more of them has (predictably) emerged in the battle between Labor and the Nationals for votes in greater Queanbeyan. Missing — as is often the case — is the option of better public transport for the growing city of Queanbeyan and its new towns

What will they privatise next?

by Maria Taylor - 15/02/201918/02/2019

INCUMBENT MEMBER FOR Monaro and state National Party Leader, John Barilaro, has been dropping large bundles of cash around the electorate in a pork-barrel strategy leading up to the March 23 election. But it’s worth remembering where the dollars come from — the sale of NSW assets during the rule

Shameful NSW government logging on famous Corn Trail

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by Friends of the Mongarlowe River - 07/02/201907/02/2019

THE FIRST OBJECTIVE of the NSW Forestry Corporation is to ‘Be a successful business’. Friends of the Mongarlowe River (FMR) argue that the economics of logging steep hillsides in a forestry compartment surrounded by Declared Wilderness just don’t stack up. These magnificent native forests are worth far more to Australia as

QPRC okays $100,000 special interest consultancy

by Maria Taylor - 13/09/201824/05/2019

IN OCTOBER the QPRC council majority, team Overall plus Councillors Hicks and Schweikert, appointed a consultancy to again look at the E4 zone approved by Palerang and the NSW state. Singled out for review are two rural residential localities that have long been the lobbying focus of a group of

First CBD redevelopment project bypasses ratepayer scrutiny

by QPRC Council Watch - 16/11/201816/11/2018

THE FIRST SALE and redevelopment of QPRC land in the Queanbeyan CBD under a confidential agreement will bypass council’s inhouse approval process. The project is for a serviced apartment hotel, restaurant/café and residential townhouses. It will be undertaken over three stages. Details, including size and scale, are limited. Councillors approved the sale

Aged-care action after years of Liberal cuts

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by News Release - 26/09/201826/09/2018

With a Royal Commission called into the aged-care sector and a national program on ABC Four Corners based on thousands of negative reports about patient care and staff numbers, training, wages and government oversight in the residential sector, Labor’s federal Shadow Minister for Ageing and Mental Health Julie Collins asks