So today Gladys Berejiklian and her government are handing down the 2019-20 NSW Budget. To avoid disappointment, again, I won’t hope that there will be something in there for us here in South West Sydney. Certainly nothing for the things we would like to have, such as a nice newRead more »
Cataract Dam, built more than 100 years ago, is at 28.9 percent of capacity Playing golf in a charity day last week, the conversation in the group eventually got around to the level one water restrictions we are about to have foisted on us and the drought generally. It wasRead more »
You don’t have to be a soccer follower to know that the arrival of Macarthur FC Bulls is something big. Some people at yesterday’s unveiling of the name and colours were mulling over how good the team on the field would be when the Bulls join the A-League next year.Read more »
Many residents are still not connected to NBN, but not a word has been said during this election campaign about this and other real issues for voters. It would be easy to choose the person who was on social media this morning asking if there is an election on asRead more »
Bill Shorten Plenty of voters will be wishing they had more of a choice when they vote in the federal election on Saturday, May 18. Let’s be perfectly clear about this: when we say the two major parties stink it’s a comment on their head offices and not on individualRead more »
You’ve got to feel for the 220 people who will lose their jobs if Kimberly-Clark goes ahead with its shock decision to relocate to Asia. It’s all very well to say we live in a world where change is the only thing we can be certain of and that theseRead more »
Now that the dust has settled from the NSW election we can begin to look at how the next four years shapes up under a third term Coalition government. As we congratulate Gladys Berejiklian in becoming the first woman to be elected premier of our great state, we note forRead more »
It’s turning out to be quite an election, thanks to final week gaffes and other horrors from the frontline of campaigning. Michael Daley’s $3 billion TAFE shocker, combined with the leaking of his anti-Asian sentiments, have made the Labor party’s job of winning a little harder, but they haven’t reallyRead more »
Campbelltown has never looked better. Sometimes you have to be careful what you wish for; hearing that in a particular location in Sydney the powers to be were considering calling it a “recreational hub’’ a councillor from another area piped up: yep, that would be right, in that place aRead more »
Apparently the banking royal commission cost $1 billion dollars of our hard earned money. One billion dollars to tell us the banks and other financial institutions are greedy bastards. If the authorities whose job it is to regulate banks did their job we would have saved that billion dollars. ButRead more »
With not one but two elections coming up this year, 2019 is shaping up as a big challenge to that cynical cohort of our species also known as voters. And who could blame them. It’s not so much that the system is broken, that ain’t the case. The cynicism comesRead more »
They’re long gone now but I will be eternally grateful to my parents for migrating to Australia. Apparently it was a toss-up between Canada and Australia and I am so happy Down Under came up on top. As I learned all about its history after arriving in August 1966, aRead more »
