Councillor Chris Harris

The Greens provide state election voters with the opportunity to support a party that thinks long term. We have a comprehensive set of policies that contain solutions to the critical issues of global warming, Howard’s industrial relations regime and the growing inequity in our society.

In past elections we have seen a number of Greens policies misrepresented.

Now the NSW Treasurer, Michael Costa, has gone one illogical step further, accusing the Greens of hiding their policies. The party’s policies are available on the Greens NSW website - here - but the Treasurer continues with his lie. This baseless allegation is a reminder that the major parties see the Greens as a threat and they will therefore distort and misrepresent our policies and activities.

Hello to all who attended the community meeting last month at the Paddington Town Hall where we discussed the activities of Fox Studios and the airborne and waterborne emissions that are coming out of the site. See below, over the fold, for a summary of the information provided to the community by Dr Chris Winder & Dr Mark Donohoe.

If you didn’t attend the meeting or would like to hear the speakers again, recordings of the main speakers are provided here in MP3 format in two parts.

1. Introductory remarks and then presentation by Dr Chris Winder: MP3 stream or MP3 download (35 MB)
2. Presentation by Dr Mark Donohoe: MP3 stream or MP3 download
   (15 MB)

If you have further questions or observations I would be interested in hearing from you.

The meeting was held at Paddington Town Hall on August 17 betwen 6 and 9 p.m.

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A letter in last Friday’s SMH draws attention to the promotion of gambling culture to children in local clubs.

The letter’s author,
David Jerome from Berry, is right on the money. Children playing pokies for toys are being seduced into the government sponsored gambling rort.

In 2004/05 in Australia, $53 billion was lost in poker machines and of that $3.17 billion was lost in the 5379 machines installed in the City of Sydney clubs and pubs. This vast amount of money came straight out of the pockets of mainly lower to middle income families.

This isn’t a game - these people are hooked on a habit that destroys families, causes domestic violence and puts people in gaol when they steal from the boss to feed their addiction.

Isn’t it time that councils and the state government stopped profiting from these misery machines and regulated them out of existence?

Download:

• Greens to remove the NSW Government’s dependence on poker machines. (Microsoft Word) Media Release Sept. 11