The deadline for applications for funding under the Community Building Partnership fund has been extended to 6 August. Application for eligible community groups are only available online at www.communitybuildingpartnership.nsw.gov.au
MOBILE SPEED CAMERAS COMING TO SHIRE
The Keneally Government’s mobile speed cameras will operate at Captain Cook Drive, Caringbah and The Kingsway, Cronulla. Mobile speed cameras carry no advance warning to slow drivers down, can operate any time of the day or night and offences carry fines and demerit points. Getting a ticket in the mail three weeks after the event does not save lives!
DESALINATION PUSHES WATER PRICE UP
Electricity makes up half the cost of running the Kurnell desalination plant with water costs expected to rise to $2.24 per thousand litres. The Government claim the plant is powered by a wind farm, yet the Minister for Water has refused to answer my questions in Parliament on how much power the wind farm has produced to power the hungry plant. The public have a right to know how their money is spent.
HANDS OFF OUR HOMES
Despite the Shire’s already congested roads, Labor’s metropolitan strategy states that 10 100 new dwellings have to be built in the Sutherland Shire by 2030. Premier Keneally has said that compulsory acquisition (of homes) might be part of the future.
The NSW Opposition has launched an online campaign opposing Labor’s plan to allow people’s homes to be seized and sold to developers. Register your protest against compulsory acquisition at www.handsoffourhomes.com.au
