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Hunter Ward council by-election
Saturday 4th June 2011
The Greens candidate for the by-election is Virginia Milson.Read Waverley Greens news items about the election. Waverley Council's by-election information page is here. The NSW Electoral Commission's by election information page is here. |
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A Greens motion to endorse the anti-pokie campaign of Federal MP Andrew Wilkie was supported unanimously by Waverley Council at its meeting this week. The motion also declared council's opposition to increased availability of gaming machines in Waverley generally.
"This decision sends a strong message regarding the plan to increase poker machine numbers at the Bondi Bowls Club," said Virginia Milson, Greens candidate for the Hunter Ward by-election.
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The Greens are opposed to Waverley Council's plan to rezone the Hugh Bamford Reserve to enable industrial development. There is no immediate need for the Council's current depot at Zetland to be relocated.
Elected Greens on Waverley Council and in the NSW state parliament are working to ensure this irresponsible project is scrapped. The Greens are also concerned that the NSW government is putting pressure on Waverley Council to relocate its depot from Zetland to North Bondi to accommodate its Green Square redevelopment plans.
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Wollongong Council and the Illawarra’s corrupt developers have featured prominently in this year’s “Toasters” awards for bad development, hosted by NSW Greens MP Sylvia Hale. Corrupt Wollongong developer Frank Vellar took out the coveted “Golden Toaster” as the Bad Developer of the Year for 2008. The sacked Wollongong Council, which has had ICAC corruption findings made against eight former Councillors and staff members, was named Worst Council. “I can’t think of any developer in the history of these awards who so richly deserves the title of “Bad Developer”, said Ms Hale.
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Greens MP and transport spokesperson Lee Rhiannon says the findings from the Boston Consulting Group Report on RailCorp services support increasing front-line staff and cuts to management positions, as this is the key to clean, safe reliable train services.
"Removing front line staff at a time when patronage is sky-rocketing makes absolutely no sense," Ms Rhiannon said. "Reducing staff will only compromise the ability to cope with increased commuter demand for rail.
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NSW Treasury Secretary John Pierce has left Premier Nathan Rees with little choice but to retract his gross exaggeration of the costs of a change to the state's credit rating, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Mr Pierce told a NSW Legislative Council Committee yesterday that he 'cringed' when he heard the Premier of NSW claim that losing the states' AAA credit rating would result in a $500 million a year interest payment blow-out.
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Waverley's mayoral meeting was held last night, with the Greens Indigenous Cr. Dominic Wy Kanak the nominee for mayor from the three Greens councillors with 3 ALP councillors in support.
The other nominee was the Liberal's Sally Betts with five Liberals and Miriam Guttman-Jones, a conservative independent, in support. Betts name was chosen from the box, and the Liberals went on to win the deputy mayor's position in the same fashion.
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· Background (Feb 19, 2004)
· Coogee 2007 (Jan 25, 2007)
· Eastern Sydney (Oct 01, 2008)
· Global (Sep 28, 2008)
· Greens (Dec 12, 2006)
· National (May 24, 2011)
· NSW (Mar 17, 2009)
· Opinion (May 31, 2007)
· Vaucluse 2007 (Mar 25, 2007)
· Waverley Council (Jan 15, 2010)
· Waverley Council Election 2008 (Oct 01, 2008)
· Wentworth 2007 (Sep 28, 2007)
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