Michael Byrne, the Pauline Hanson One Nation Party (PHON) candidate for Holsworthy, has savaged the Moorebank intermodal terminal, describing it as “a 24 hour noisy, dirty diesel rail and truck industry planted in between established residential neighbourhoods and the wooded banks of the Georges River’’.
He says that he is using Facebook and YouTube to call to account Qube Holdings and “all but a few politicians’’ on the processes that delivered the Moorebank intermodal terminal.
“The project
has limited approvals and is now stalled,’’ says Mr Byrne in a call to arms to local
residents.
“We wait to see whether it is Qube shareholders or we taxpayers set to pay $1
billion plus to make it work with our local road system that serves as a
traffic corridor for the entire outer south western Sydney and Macarthur
region.
“Its passage is an incredible story of corporate rent-seeking and political
payback that saw the public interest come a long last at great cost.
“It needs to be called out in Parliament,’’ says Mr Byrne, who has lived in east Liverpool for 41 years.
He lists “haphazard high rise zoning putting six storey unit blocks at long time residents’ back fence, congested local road system inadequate for its regional operation and an absence of railway station parking being simple neglect with monies pouring into inner city projects’’ as some of the issues in Holsworthy ahead of the March 23 state election.
“The election campaign is mainly candidate self-funded. But I cannot purchase hands and feet,’’ says Mr Byrne in an appeal for election volunteers.
“I have a simple task – to persuade one in two to not vote as usual for the Labor/Liberal/Green mob and send their vote to me. So I need presence.
“I appeal to the locals, and anyone else, for assistance to man the polling booths to provide the presence.
“Pre-polling begins on Monday, March 11; yes that soon. So where you have a few spare hours and a desire for better government please contact me.’’
