Transparency, trust and supporting open government are the themes for this year’s Right to Know Week during September 24-30. Let’s just hope the message reaches Campbelltown Council because all three are in short supply. The question really is, who is running Campbelltown Council and the controversial proposal to establish aRead more »
It would be very easy to dismiss all of our politicians as either incompetent or unethical. The truth is that most of them get into politics for all the right reasons. But somewhere along the way they get out of touch with the real world. There’s a lot of reasonsRead more »
The South West Sydney region had for many years been the forgotten part of Sydney. People talk about Western Sydney when they essentially mean Parramatta, Blacktown and Penrith. It may only be a geographical glitch, but the end result is that the places that make up the south west, Campbelltown,Read more »
The thing to remember when it comes to plans for high rise towers in Campbelltown is that they won’t materialise for a long time after they’ve got the green light. Despite some suggestions to the contrary, the wrecking balls won’t be in full swing tomorrow, next year or even inRead more »
It is a great comfort to know that children’s services will be substantially expanded once the $632 million Stage 2 redevelopment of Campbelltown is done and dusted in the next few years. Paediatric beds will almost triple from 22 to 60 and every year an additional 4,000 children will beRead more »
A lot of successful cities both here and overseas use an advisory committee to give them an edge. These committees are usually made up of local people who are experts in their field, from business to politics and media and the law. What’s particularly interesting is that those on suchRead more »
Let’s go forward in time to 2026 when planes are landing at Badgerys Creek international airport. Unfortunately, if current transport infrastructure plans are implemented only people who live along Sydney’s western rail line will be able to get on a train to go to the new airport. Anybody south ofRead more »
It is hard to fathom why any government in this day and age would go down the path of “bread and circuses’’. A quick online search by one of their thousands of public servants would have told them the truth about this old Roman saying. And the truth is thatRead more »
We’re nine months from the election but I am going to go out on a limb and predict that the Berejiklian Government will lose. There are a couple of caveats. One, Labor has to lose Luke Foley. By lose I mean get another leader. Foley is a nice, solid fellowRead more »
Just three days before submissions to the M9 or Outer Sydney Orbital – OSO – corridor close there is a real sense of gloom and doom for those affected. And there’s no argument that whoever came up with the location of this corridor had no idea of the impact itRead more »
There’s no doubt that not everybody’s aboard the Campbelltown and Macarthur population boom bus. Some certainly are, just as others are fierce in their opposition. I won’t names to avoid any embarrassment, but the difference of opinion even cuts across political party lines. Put it this way: not everybody inRead more »
Today being the 50th anniversary of the proclamation of Campbelltown as a city and the opening of the local railway station’s first electric train line is as good a day to reflect on how we are going these days. Well, one of my first thoughts was how did they makeRead more »
