You didn’t know it at the time, but the people you elected in 2016 to serve as your councillors in Campbelltown can apparently double as curators of art. At the last meeting of council they supported a motion enabling themselves to curate a work of art from the vast collectionRead more »
It will be a mere formality, but next Tuesday Campbelltown Council will hold a mayoral vote as required by local government legislation. There was brief talk of an independent candidate standing against the mayor of the past two years, but our sources tell us it fizzled out very quickly. LaborRead more »
Along with Joan Cootes, her friend and fellow advocate for local history, Laurie Porter helped save St James Anglican Church in Kent Street, Minto from demolition. Sadly, last night Laurie Porter lost a much more important fight – the battle with breast cancer. Joan Cootes was kind enough to shareRead more »
Another senior manager has joined the revolving door at Campbelltown City Council. Lisa Miscamble, the director of City Lifestyles tendered her resignation this morning. She joins director of City Delivery Wayne Rylands who resigned and Mick Sewell, the director of City Governance, who announced he is retiring. Rylands has alreadyRead more »
The owners of the former Brands on Sale building near the northern end of Queen Street, Campbelltown have got big plans for the site. Pacific Planning Pty Ltd have lodged a planning proposal request to increase the maximum building height from 26 metres or about eight storeys, to 87 metres,Read more »
The federal member for Macarthur is also one of the region’s longest serving paediatricians. It is often said of Dr Mike Freelander that he has helped deliver a lot of local babies over the past 30 years. But his brilliant detective work in discovering that the old Campbelltown motor registryRead more »
Despite living in the Sutherland Shire temporarily while their new house gets built, Jan McLaughlin drove her husband John all the way to Campbelltown Hospital when he felt unwell recently. The couple, who have been married for more than 50 years, have lived in Camden and Campbelltown most of theirRead more »
Captain Pat, where the bloody hell are you? The former C91.3 radio star promised that he would keep touch before leaving in November 2016 to go and live in south east Asia for a while. But one reader who knew Pat McGeown very well contacted us to say there hadRead more »
The story on Mirvac’s and Australian House & Garden magazine’s My Ideal House last week reminded local lawyer and amateur historian Patrick Duffy of another residential design breakthrough that also happened right here in Macarthur. After a little bit of research, Duffy found an article on Australia’s first underground displayRead more »
Many of you would have seen a couple of short videos of two koalas up a tree I published last Wednesday in the Facebook page of the South West Voice. While under the tree we alerted wildlife rescuer Ricardo Lonza, who after checking out the situation let us know thatRead more »
When local MP Greg Warren handed his phone to the Voice and asked if we could take a photo of him with the NSW Governor David Hurley last Thursday, we just had to ask him why. Mr Warren was happy to oblige, informing us that once upon a time HisRead more »
After taking part in the Anzac Day March in Sydney, a group of visiting Greek presidential guards – the world famous Evzones – came to Camden for one more commemoration ceremony. Attended by a large number of people, the ceremony was held across the road from Camden RSL, at BicentennialRead more »
