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Development
We have seen the RWPP, the RED scheme and now the RWA have been proposed, and we work with other local residents on these issues
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Dissenting MP calls for Home Building Insurance scheme to be scrapped
Media Release : 14 December 2007
NSW Greens MP, Sylvia Hale has delivered a dissenting report following the parliamentary inquiry into the Home Building Service insurance scheme. In her report Ms Hale has called for the current NSW scheme to be scrapped and replaced with a new scheme owned and operated by the state government and based on the successful Queensland model.
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Shooters MP Helps Government Stifle Public Inquiry into New Planning Laws
Shooters Party MP Roy Smith has stymied a parliamentary inquiry into the proposed major overhaul of the planning laws.
Mr Smith voted with government members to stop a parliamentary committee inquiring into the effectiveness of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act and the implications of the government’s proposals for local councils and communities.
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Lee Rhiannon MLC
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Greens amend liquor laws: small bar numbers, limiting chains and Ombudsman review
Greens MP Lee Rhiannon - 5 December 2007
Greens MP and health spokesperson Lee Rhiannon is seeking to amend new liquor laws, due for debate in the NSW Upper House today. The amendments will limit small bars to 120 people, restrict the number of small bar licences someone can hold to ten and have the NSW Ombudsman review the impact of the new laws.
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Greens amend liquor laws: small bar numbers, limiting chains and Ombudsman review
Media Release - 5 December 2007
Greens MP and health spokesperson Lee Rhiannon is seeking to amend new liquor laws, due for debate in the NSW Upper House today. The amendments will limit small bars to 120 people, restrict the number of small bar licences someone can hold to ten and have the NSW Ombudsman review the impact of the new laws.
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Trinity's plans pass despite ticking off locals
Frank Walker fwalker@sunherald.com.au
The Sun-Herald, November 11, 2007
TRINITY Grammar School has won a bitter battle against a council and angry residents, clearing the way for it to demolish 11 heritage houses to build an Olympic-sized swimming pool and underground car park.
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Days numbered ... the house in Glebe. Photo: Bryan O'Brien
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Boarding house sacrificed to apartments development
Sunanda Creagh Urban Affairs Reporter
SMH, October 31, 2007
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A GLEBE boarding house will be turned into multimillion-dollar waterfront apartments after the State Government lifted a ban on redeveloping the site.
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Blueprint shows 'takeover' plans for Callan Park
Jordan Baker
SMH, October 29, 2007
A BLUEPRINT for the development of Callan Park has been dubbed a "university takeover plan" after it showed a huge increase in floor space was needed to cater for as many as 6000 students and teachers and make a new campus worthwhile.
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Brewery site sold to Singapore developer
Catharine Munro
Urban Affairs Editor
SMH, June 13, 2007
IN ONE gulp, a Singaporean developer has swallowed the biggest block of land in the inner city.
Stanley Quek yesterday announced he had paid $208 million for the 5.8-hectare Carlton & United Breweries site in Chippendale, predicting that in three to four years he would look back chuffed at his bargain.
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Dr Spies-Butcher addressing the Forum
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Ben's speech to Redwatch's "Meet the Heffron Candidates" forum
First a brief introduction. Many of you know me, but some of you don’t. I have been a local resident, living under the Redfern Waterloo Authority, since it began. I helped to establish REDWatch, and was Secretary before I stood down to contest the election. I am trained as an economist and currently work on public policy issue at Sydney and Macquarie Universities.
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Uncertainty for Public Housing Tenants
· Redfern Waterloo Authority
· Redevelopment already on the cards
· Built Environment Plan
· Affordable Housing
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Waterloo Towers
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Government Should Come Clean on Redfern Public Housing
7th February 2007
The Greens NSW will tomorrow launch a petition calling on the Redfern Waterloo Authority (RWA) and Minister Frank Sartor to make public its plans for public housing in Redfern-Waterloo.
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Sylvia Hale MLC
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Housing crisis solutions need political will
In the next parliament, The Greens will reintroduce their Affordable Housing Bill that would allow councils to require at least 10% affordable housing in all new developments.
With rents rising up to 20% in the last year and climbing interest rates, the Greens are concerned that the future looks bleak for the one third of households that struggle to keep a roof over their heads.
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Ben Spies-Butcher and Lee Rhiannon MLC at the Carriageworks
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The future of the Eveleigh railyards must be for the community, not big business
20th January 2007.
Greens MP Lee Rhiannon and Greens candidate for Heffron, Ben Spies-Butcher, attended the Open Day at the Carriageworks art space today to highlight local concerns about the development of the Eveleigh Railyards.
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Councillor Chris Harris
At a Council meeting on the 15th of March, the Lord Mayor moved a mayoral minute (delivered to councillors 25 minutes before the meeting), which was supported Clover Moore Party âindependentsâ and the Liberal Councillor, to abandon plans to build a skate park at the Millers Point site underneath a busy freeway (for background information on the site, [...]
I have serious concerns about the tender process that appears to have been designed to place the Cityâs tennis courts under the management of a single operator. Should the recommendation of council staff be adopted the operator at Ruchcutters Bay tennis courts will be tossed out after 25 years of service to the community. The [...]
Hot on the heels of their destruction of the habitat area at Orphan School Creek with the freshly laid concrete zig zag path, the Clover Moore Party are at it again across the road in Johnstons Canal with more habitat destruction. The proposal is a bike path that links the shared pathway emerging from Orphan [...]
The Barangaroo Authority conducted a presentation of the design ideas of British architect Richard Rogers at the City Recital Hall on 23rd February. The presentation visuals showed attractive buildings and public spaces that interfaced with the water at the cityâs western edge with a light rail service passing down Hickson Rd.
One key component of the [...]
At a council meeting of the City of Sydney on 22nd February Clover Moore Party
members and the Liberal councilor voted in tandem to donate public ratepayer funds to two private enterprises setting up in the Cityâs laneways.
The first donation to set up a new bar was approved outright.  The second grant, to the Moran Arts Foundation Ltd, was recommended [...]
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