It may be early days, but whichever way you look at it, the development application to rezone the land around Macquarie Fields House for housing is of great concern. It becomes an even greater concern when you consider that the Scenic Hills are under development attack on three fronts. TheRead more »
The Baird Government has to come clean on TAFE. It has to tell us what its intentions are regarding this historic and important educational institution. There are fears that in sticking to some sort of conservative ideological position the government may end up throwing out the baby with the bathRead more »
It’s Christmas Eve, which means it’s our last chance to do some shopping before the big day. We all try to finish shopping on December 23, if not earlier, but human nature being what it is means that we will not tick that box for another year. But we shouldRead more »
Looking at the national picture, there’s delicious irony in comparing how we started the year and how we are seeing off the end of 2015. We started with a prime minister who was so backward looking he brought back honours that belong to another century. He was so backward looking,Read more »
Once upon a time it seemed like every man and his dog were opposed to a Badgerys Creek international airport. Well the times have changed and now it’s harder to find one of these opponents than a moon landing conspiracy theory believer. Now and again airport critics come out ofRead more »
The State Government will come to regret this decision to relocate Hurlstone Agricultural High School and sell of much of the land it sits on. It is wrong on so many fronts I really do not know where to start. First, it is a slap in the face to theRead more »
There’s something about our new treasurer that’s different. Scott Morrison is not content with short term solutions and that’s something to like about him. Whether as immigration minister or when he was briefly in charge of social security, Morrison wanted to find real, long terms solutions to problems. Which is theRead more »
It doesn’t matter what level of democracy you’re talking about, one thing that’s constant is respect by the participants for the right of others to express a contrary view. Let’s remind ourselves of Voltaire’s freedom of speech declaration: I violently disagree with you but I will fight to the deathRead more »
We spend a lot of time and effort in cleaning up graffiti. But we do more than that. We get really worked up about it. Some people hate graffiti with a passion, something which I find hard to fathom. Before you get the wrong idea let’s make one thing clear:Read more »
Grand final week is when sport hits its critics for six. Think about it. Australians who live thousands of kilometres away from each other in Perth, Townsville, Brisbane and Melbourne are interacting with each other in a way only sport can enable. In this case sport being AFL and NRL,Read more »
I’ve looked into my crystal ball to see what our wonderful region will look like in 25 years and with 35,000 more homes than we have now, and the news ain’t crash hot, folks. We all know what a drive south on the Hume Highway between the university on NarellanRead more »
A million words have already been written about our new Prime Minister and he’s been in the job barely four days. In fact he hasn’t even been able to move into his new office yet, but it hasn’t stopped the rush to fill media space with commentary upon commentary. It’sRead more »
