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25.01.2022 So many serious grievances with our state and fed govts: overdevelopment and destruction of habitat; coal and gas mining coupled with climate change denial; privatisation of our public services including local buses; rorts and corruption exposed daily with no-one held accountable. Let's make them listen at the It's Our Right protests. First one on Wednesday, Nov 18, 10am to 12 pm, Sydney Harbour Foreshore

25.01.2022 The report into last summer's catastrophic bushfires has landed - calling for radical changes to firefighting techniques and better co-ordination of efforts to cope with the new intensity of fires driven by climate change. If this is what we get at 1.5 degrees C increase in temperature, just imagine what it will be like at 4+ degrees. The Coalition and Labor must change course - and end their promotion of coal and gas. https://bit.ly/2TCSugQ

25.01.2022 If the government believes in letting the market rip, why would it build a $600 million gas-fired power station at Kurri Kurri in the Hunter Valley that no private energy company wants to fund? Hunter Valley renewables campaigners joined those from the Northern Beaches and other parts of Sydney today to send the message to Planning Minister Rob Stokes

24.01.2022 How does the media report on refugees and how does it deal with govt dehumanisation and demonisation of them? See this live stream with some of Australia's most experienced journos. https://www.facebook.com/RACsydney

20.01.2022 I'll be joining other members of Protect Pittwater to launch our new petition to demerge from Northern Beaches Council, at a rally to mark the 5th Anniversary of council amalgamations. Everyone's invited to come along to our old council boundary for the rally on Wednesday May 12, 7 to 9am, at the northern end of the bridge over Narrabeen Lagoon on Pittwater Rd! We'll have petitions there to start the ball rolling!

20.01.2022 Today is Mabo Day - 29 years now since the High Court recognised that this land was never terra nullius. But while First Nations people in Pittwater have celebrated their gains this week, they also marked Sorry Day on May 26 - a remembrance of the removal of children from their families, now known as The Stolen Generations. If only that was the end of it - some 20,000 indigenous kids have been taken from their families since PM Kevin Rudd's apology in 2008.

18.01.2022 Hard to believe that the public gets only 20 cents per tree logged from our native forests. So said Greens MP David Shoebridge at a #WorldEnvironmentDay rally at the Archibald Fountain today, organised to remind the NSW govt that #KoalasNeedTrees. We heard from a number of speakers that despite the catastrophic Black Summer bushfires with billions of creatures of all sorts lost, logging continues unabated in koala habitat. Koalas will be extinct in NSW by 2050, a parliamentary inquiry chaired by Greens MP Cate Faehrmann found last year without urgent govt intervention - we're still waiting to see it

17.01.2022 It's a simple message - let's hope our governments are listening. Thanks to all our young people and others at the #ClimateStrike today for their calls for renewable energy and a world free of fossil fuel emissions. Very sorry I couldn't make it. Photo credit: Philipa Veitch

15.01.2022 Koalas need trees!!! Rally tomorrow (Friday) 7-9am at Planning Minister Rob Stokes Mona Vale office, cnr Pittwater and Mona Vale Rds. Let him know that the Coalition's latest plans to "protect" koalas - forged to pacify the Nationals after John Barillaro's dummy spit - are not on. Koalas will be extinct by 2050 unless urgent action is taken - a parly inquiry found earlier this year. Weakening the already pathetic laws will hasten this. Another protest at the Domain, in the city, at 11am, tomorrow

14.01.2022 No pleasure for us in Pittwater seeing the state govt's council merger policy sink in a sea of red ink - as was reported last weekend. We had a well-managed and financially sound council, that in a low interest environment used debt to finance infrastructure and facilities to benefit current and future residents. Here's Save Our Council's analysis of the situation now: STATE GOVT $2 BILLION SAVINGS PROMISE FOR FORCED AMALGAMATED COUNCILS. POLICY BURIED IN RED INK October 31.2...020 Immediate Release Five years ago 20 NSW councils were forcibly amalgamated by the State Government with the then Local Government Minister Paul Toole, stating the process would result in savings of $2 billion within 20 years. That promise is now fairyland. That target set out in Government proposals is a forlorn hope even before Covid 19 set in, with not one cent in combined savings evident in the published plans. Now says Save our Councils Coalition (SOCC), two of the amalgamated councils are in administration, two councils are before the Boundaries Commission trying to get their councils de-merged and three are waiting in the wings. In pre Covid 19 plans for 2019/20 most amalgamated councils across the state are millions of dollars in the red. Brian Halstead, President of SOCC, says the costs of mergers so far in taxpayers grants is over half a billion dollars before the costs borne by ratepayers. The Central Coast alone is reporting an amalgamation cost of $48 million against a grant of $10 million. Net cost to ratepayers of $38 million. In metropolitan Sydney alone the combined results in the 2019/20 plan, pre Covid, are million dollar deficits whilst amalgamation proposals targeted surpluses of $139 million, a shortfall of $150 million in one year. The Government must share the blame here because five years since forced mergers were announced, the State Government has not required merged councils to report back on their performances against the amalgamation proposals and the $2 billion target, Halstead says. We have been opposing council mergers since 2014. We knew that bigger would not be better. Today the State Government, from Premier Berejiklian, down has spent their time working out how to distribute last election's $250m grant funds from abandoned amalgamations rather than finding out which amalgamated councils were struggling with forced amalgamations costs and needed financial help, he said. Halstead says huge pressures have been building from rate harmonisations needed as a result of rate path freezes imposed as part of the amalgamation process. Harmonisation processes will now result in rate increases - for instance Manly and Botany residents in the order of 30 percent with no real change in services provided, Halstead added.

14.01.2022 So the NSW government has now come up with a total of $18.1 million to fix flooding and improve the Wakehurst Parkway. But is it enough to build a road without destroying the valley the road runs through - with its bushland forming part of the headwaters of Narrabeen Lagoon - and ALL of its Aboriginal sites? Only one way to find out - show us the plans Mayor Michael Regan and MP Rob Stokes. https://bit.ly/35SOwYg

14.01.2022 So the NSW govt has passed legislation to let merged councils harmonise rates over eight years. That means Northern Beaches Council can now delay its proposed business rate rise of 24 per cent in Pittwater and 42 per cent in Manly - but could also get away with charging higher residential rates in Pittwater and Warringah than Manly for longer. Wasn't there something about amalgamated councils costing less to run? https://bit.ly/3eWcl5W

13.01.2022 Finally saw Girls Can't Surf last night before it closed in Avalon. I was never a surfer but spent years down at my local sailing clubs and on the water. To start with as a teenager, there wasn't even a women's changing room at the local club and women couldn't be full members. With a friend in my 20s, we towed our boat up and down the NSW coast to regattas and, having started to win or place in races, to the Nationals in Melbourne one year. When we arrived there with a new b...oat, all the blokes examined it and declared it illegal even before the official measure. With 25 knots blowing on Port Philip, we had some exciting races but one of the things that sticks in my mind is that every other crew had an official photo taken of them on the water that year - just not us, a crew with two women. I think these are the only photos of me sailing - and unfortunately not helming! See more

12.01.2022 The rain was no obstacle to locals calling on Pittwater MP and NSW Planning Minister Rob Stokes to fix the govt's latest koala "protection" bill. The bill worsens koalas' predicament - by watering down the defn of koala habitat, removing councils' power to prevent logging on private land and expanding clearing on farm land. Koalas will be extinct by 2050 unless we take urgent and drastic action. Please sign this petition, phone or write direct to Mr Stokes #saveourkoalas https://bit.ly/367a1nb

06.01.2022 I don't expect the new US President will reverse the 40 years of neo-liberal politics that exacerbated the destructive divisions within his country. But there's one thing he can do that would enhance democracy.

05.01.2022 Our local council is responsible for planning for sea level rise on the Northern Beaches as climate change accelerates (state govt put it in the too hard basket and handed it over to councils). Flooding from big storms is one of its impacts. The question is: what plans are our councillors putting in place? The sooner we deal with issues like moving roads the cheaper it will be. https://ab.co/3jC5Zbj

04.01.2022 ... I also joined the #stopadaniroadshow at Town Hall yesterday for #WorldEnvironmentDay, along with other Northern Beaches climate activists including Greens. We heard Australia's exports from coal are our greatest source of carbon emissions - still a way to go to zero emissions. But grassroots action by #StopAdani has convinced 100 major investors, including all the world's major banks, not to support their coal mine in Nth QLD. That's something to celebrate! #

02.01.2022 My story about the launch of Protect Pittwater's new demerger petition and momentum building for council de-amalgamations around the state. So great to see Hannah and Simon Dunn - children of the first elected mayor of Pittwater, Robert Dunn, at Wednesday's rally. Note also possibilities for a referendum as the NSW government slides into a minority in Parliament. See the petition link and info at end of the story. http://www.pittwateronlinenews.com/Pittwater-Demerger-movem

01.01.2022 Many of us regard Wakehurst Parkway as the gateway to Pittwater. Northern Beaches Council is currently exhibiting a set of proposals to "floodproof" the road - but in ways that will destroy bushland the size of a small forest. See Pittwater Online News to find out what's going on and please tell the council we need a solution that provides reliable access to our closest emergency ward at Northern Beaches Hospital without damaging the trees, wildlife and Aboriginal sites in the area. http://www.pittwateronlinenews.com/Wakehurst-Parkway-Flood-