Former Campbelltown mayor PAUL HAWKER says in this opinion piece there’s good reasons independents are on the rise in all forms of government in Australia and voters are turning to them: Over the past several years Australians have become despondent with the behaviour and policies of our major political parties,Read more »
Driving back from an interview yesterday, I couldn’t help noticing a young mother struggling to push a pram through thick 25cm tall grass. This was along Harold Street, near the Ingleburn RSL club, and I really felt for this poor woman not being able to enjoy the comfort of aRead more »
To see so many people put their hand up to serve on their local council can only be a good thing. Although it’s fair to say that for some people it’s a mystery why anyone would want to get on the council. All that effort and so little to showRead more »
It is now certain the council elections will go ahead on December 4. The current term is now into its sixth year, which is rather unfortunate, especially for those areas with a poorly performing council. And there’s one or two in our midst, especially when it comes to matters ofRead more »
If there are good reasons places like Campbelltown and Liverpool are copping draconian restrictions such as a curfew, they should be made public. And if they won’t show us the medical case for extra restrictions in half the city, the lockdown should go back to being uniform across Greater Sydney.Read more »
If a curfew will help us bring this strain of Covid under control, then so be it. But what was the premier, Gladys Berejiklian, thinking when she announced this morning the 9pm-5am curfew will be imposed only in the “local government areas of concern’’. This discriminatory action is an outrage.Read more »
The Olympic Games start this Friday, and while we wish everyone taking part the best of luck it’s hard to shake the feeling that it should not be going ahead. You’ve got to feel for our friends the Japanese people, who it seems have been let down by their politiciansRead more »
The continual blaming of the west and south west must stop, says ANNE STANLEY, the federal member for Werriwa, in this opinion piece: The people of Sydney’s South West are as strong, community minded and hard working as any in Sydney. For the last 18 months we have complied withRead more »
In this opinion piece, the federal member for Macarthur, DR MIKE FREELANDER, argues that getting out of the Covid-19 pandemic requires much more than a “plan for a plan’’: I do not subscribe to the politics of negativity. At all stages of this pandemic, and indeed my time in office,Read more »
It has not come as a great surprise that the NSW Government is considering changes to legislation to require an independent body to set the remuneration of local council general managers. Not to readers of the South West Voice, which has been one of the few media outlets to drawRead more »
“I told my sons to get out of Campbelltown as soon as they could.’’ When someone you know and respect says something like that it does come as a surprise. So this would have happened around 20 years ago, but it still rankled with me that after all the improvementsRead more »
Politicians would not like it one bit if they had to start paying for parking at their place of work. Each one of them, from the premier Gladys Berejiklian to the lowest backbencher, would resent it if, just like hospital staff in Campbelltown, they had to fork out for parking.Read more »
