Last year the South West Voice published an exclusive story predicting that Liverpool would finally become part of the University of Western Sydney.
The article claimed that for very good reasons, including Liverpool’s projected strong growth, a faculty of architecture would be the most likely result for Liverpool.
Presently the university does not have a faculty of architecture, another reason for the speculation at the time.
Now has come the time to find out what Liverpool will get, if anything.
Tomorrow at 11.45 am, the NSW Premier, Mike Baird is scheduled to make an announcement “about UWS in Liverpool’’.
The venue for the announcement may or may not be relevant to what Mike Baird will be announcing: the Anzac Courtyard of Liverpool Hospital.
The university’s faculty of medicine was established a few years ago in Campbelltown.
The invitation to the media says that at 11.45am tomorrow, Premier Mike Baird will “make a major announcement about UWS’s future in Liverpool.
“UWS Vice-Chancellor Professor Barney Glover and Mayor Ned Mannoun will also speak’’, it said.
Also in attendance will be members of the Committee for Liverpool, which will meet later in the day.
Established in 2015, this will be their second meeting.
They are a “high level advisory board that contributes expertise, networks and contacts across a range of sectors to support economic and social development activities in Liverpool”.
The committee is chaired by the mayor, Ned Mannoun.
Christopher Brown, chairman of the Western Sydney Leadership Dialogue, is listed as the convenor.
Members listed are :
• Ms Monica Barone, Chief Executive Officer, City of Sydney
• Mr David Borger, Western Sydney Director, Sydney Business Chamber
• Mr Glenn Byres, Property Council NSW Executive Director
• Mr Joseph Carrozzi, Managing Partner, PwC Sydney
• Ms Robynne Cooke, General Manager, Liverpool Hospital
• Mr Tony Costantino, Executive Director, Lend Lease Group
• Ms Suellen Fitzgerald, Director, Western Sydney Parklands Trust
• Professor Barney Glover, Vice Chancellor, University of Western Sydney
• Ms Marina Go, Chair, Wests Tigers NRL Club
Liverpool councillor Tony Hadchiti, who is also the President of the Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils
• Mr Andrew Head, Group General Manager, Transurban NSW
• Professor Chris Johnson, Chief Executive Officer, Urban Task Force
• Former Liverpool mayor and state planning/health minister Craig Knowles, chairman, Murray Darling Basin Authority
• Ms Amanda Larkin, Chief Executive Officer, South West Sydney Local Health District
• Mr John Lehmann, Editor-at-Large, Daily Telegraph/News Ltd
• Mr Jason Little, General Manager Australia, Goodman
• Ms Kerrie Mather, Managing Director & CEO, Sydney Airport Corporation
• Mr Brendan McRandle, Director – Western Sydney Unit, Federal Department of Infrastructure
• Mr John Papagiannis, Director, Development & Asset Management, Scentre Group/Westfield
• Mr Darren Pearce, Chief Executive, Australian Turf Club
• Mr Danny Rezek, Managing Partner, Western Sydney Office, Deloitte
• Mr Max Roberts, Head of NSW Government & Higher Education, SAP Australia
• Assoc. Professor Rod Simpson, Faculty of Architecture, Design & Planning, University of Sydney
• Mr Chris Tooher, Executive Director, Sydney Festival
• Ms Judith Whelan, News Director, Sydney Morning Herald/Fairfax Media
• Dr Tim Williams, Chief Executive Officer, the Committee for Sydney
