Tuffins concern
I am curious to know why it is that the owner of the sports fields at Tuffins Lane is simply referred to as a "developer " but not named.
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Also how is it that council has apparently paid a lease for the next twenty years but can be given notice of 18 months?
John Bishop
Be prepared
A staggering one in three of people reading this letter will face at least one natural disaster in their lifetime. And after the disaster hits, sadly there’s one thing most will also experience.
Regret about not being better prepared.
In Emergency Preparedness Week, Red Cross is calling on all Australians to take action before it’s too late. We want all Australians to be prepared for an emergency, whether it’s as large as a bushfire, cyclone or flood, or as personal as a family crisis .
Too many conversations after an emergency begin with “I wish I had…”. People wish they’d taken the kids’ baby photographs; kept their passports safe; upped their insurance; looked in on their neighbours.
For decades, we’ve seen first-hand the trauma, stress, and hardship that disasters bring; things many of us just aren’t prepared for like anxiety, grief and loss, relationship problems, and financial hardship that can go on for many years.
You can’t get back what you’ve lost after an emergency. But you can plan to protect what matters most. And that’s different for everyone. Our free guide can spare people much of the avoidable grief and trauma because we know that the better you are prepared, the better you will cope
Jody Broun, New South Wales Director, Australian Red Cross
Swing says it all
Across NSW the recent council elections saw large swings against the Liberals and Nationals.
Local issues were important. But the election was also a referendum on what people think about Premier Baird's bullying style of leadership. People are angry at a Premier who refuses to listen to them, and just tells everyone what to do.
Whether it’s the destruction of TAFE, local schools not being maintained, hospital crises or the shock decision to ban greyhounds, people are demanding that their voices be heard. Premier Baird only allowed half of the voters in NSW to cast a ballot in these council elections.
Most of the other 2.4 million voters are in forcibly merged councils, and will have to wait until September next year. Until then they will be ruled by Administrators handpicked by the Premier.
If Premier Baird keeps being dictatorial and refuses to listen to local communities, he does so at his peril.
Peter Primrose MLC, Shadow Minister for Local Government
Closing down NSW
In NSW we have a premier who is throwing thousands of workers on the scrap heap with the closing down of the greyhound industry. He seems to believe everyone is tarred with the same brush. In many country areas it will be catastrophic as not only owners and trainers are affected but all those others who work throughout the industry. What about the race tracks that will no longer be used?
All the talk about the thousands of jobs being created by the Baird Government and the Coalition Federal Government is a fantasy while ever they send contracts off shore. Mike Baird’s government is talking about new train carriages to be built. Where is the work to be done?
Overseas. What’s wrong with our tradesmen? Everything in this country of ours is closing down or already gone, like Eveleigh Workshops, Clyde Engineering and Commonwealth Engineering which employed many good tradesmen.
Allan Ward, West Haven