After an almost 45 year career in medicine, I’ve witnessed first hand on a number of occasions the lifesaving work of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in many different countries; whether it be coping with the health needs of refugees, responding to natural disasters, supporting child health through nutrition andRead more »
Awful as the coronavirus pandemic is in our country, when you think about it, we can take some comfort from the fact that it could be so much worse. The people of Italy, Spain, the UK and the US – and elsewhere – are going through a nightmare, with hundredsRead more »
Greg Warren, the State Member for Campbelltown has penned this open letter to residents in his electorate: Dear residents of Campbelltown: we are in the thrust of what will be the most turbulent time the majority of us have faced in our lifetime. The threat of Covid-19 has understandably causedRead more »
There’s currently a big divide between politicians and bureaucrats and those whose taxes and rates they rely on – in other words the rest of us. That most politicians and senior bureaucrats are out of touch with ordinary people is now an accepted fact, and there are confirmations on aRead more »
For almost three years Campbelltown City Council has been talking the talk of an urban metamorphosis. Called Re-Imagine Campbelltown it has come with great cost to the ratepayers, with hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on consultants so they can tell us how our neck of the woods can beRead more »
Rabieh Krayem, the Macarthur FC chairman and CEO hits the nail on the head when he says: people here want their own team, playing in their own backyard. And really it does boil down to this: how can a region be taken seriously if football fans, of any code, haveRead more »
There’s a saying about not throwing the baby out with the bath water. Which is a cute way to caution those who would tear down everything when a small change will do. Australia Day definitely falls in the baby and the bathwater category. Sure, we have got to look atRead more »
How about that RFS Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons – wouldn’t he look good in the big chair as NSW premier or even Prime Minister. He certainly looks comfortable handling one of the country’s biggest peace time disasters. Which is a lot more than you can say for Scomo and Gladys. GoRead more »
It’s reasonable to give new leaders a chance to prove their worth. And that’s what most fair minded Australians have done with Scott Morrison. But the honeymoon is over; indeed it has crashed and burned, just like the millions of acres consumed by the biggest bush fire season in livingRead more »
They didn’t know it at the time, but the 1920s would be part of a small break between two world wars. That’s right, 100 years ago people living across the world were about to enter a new decade after going through the hell of the war to end all wars,Read more »
We live in two worlds now. In the first one we carry on with our lives – work, home, family – and count our little blessings. In this world we get on with each other well enough, be it in traffic jams or queues at Woolies. It’s not perfect butRead more »
It is possible to deal with climate change without wrecking the economy, argues Labor MP Dr MIKE FREELANDER, the federal member for Macarthur: Australia has been plagued by policy paralysis in the climate change arena for far too long. Conservative apparatchiks have made a sport out of pitting environmental policyRead more »
