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 »
Gold, silver, iron ore, coal, gas, opals, uranium: you name it, this country’s got it. But there’s one resource that nobody else has got that we continue to overlook: the beautiful Aboriginal language. Over the years Aboriginal names have been give to things like towns and streets. From Barangaroo toRead more »
Even now, a few years after the decision for the initial rail link to Western Sydney Airport to be a metro north, it’s hard to fathom why it was made. Of course as a media outlet operating in South Western Sydney we are proud to say we are for thisRead more »
It may not be written in stone, but whether we like it or not, it’s always about the politics in an election year. And it has not taken long for some of our councillors to get into the spirit of things early in the year. Local government or council electionsRead more »
The debate over Australia Day can be so infuriating at times. Like so many other issues it seems to have been hijacked by the two extremes of politics. For both of them it’s a zero sum game where there has to be only one winner. There is no doubt thatRead more »
There’s nothing really bad about Campbelltown Council spending some of its cash reserves. What is more important is where it spends it. That is why its bid to use $13 million out of the cash reserves on the Campbelltown Billabong Parklands has sparked so much debate around the Macarthur regionRead more »
It’s fair and reasonable to ask why those who govern us are all of a sudden so interested in what we think. It was a trickle at first, but now it’s a flood and it’s so bad they won’t start building a new toilet block without first asking us whatRead more »
Both the federal and state governments have been talking about looking for infrastructure projects that would help the economy snap back to where it was before Covid-19. Well, Scomo and Gladys, we’re here to help, so here’s a suggestion for you. You know a new international airport is being builtRead more »
In 1999 there were a lot of Western Suburbs Magpies fans who were vehemently opposed to merging with Balmain Tigers. Some of them even said they would prefer to see the club die rather than merge and lose its 90 year old identity. For someone like me such a stanceRead more »
We learn a lot about ourselves when we’re under the pump and the pandemic is no exception. Indeed in six months we have discovered so much about ourselves as individuals and as a human herd that it’s hard to know where to start. Our reaction to the arrival of theRead more »
