Parramatta Greens

ParraCAN is holding this forum to inform people about a Price on Pollution

Wednesday 6th July 2011
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Parramatta High School Hall
Great Western Highway and Pitt St

Do you want to know:
o What it will involve?
o Why we need it?
o How it will affect you?
o Who will have to pay?
o What if we don’t have a carbon tax?

Speakers include:

John Kaye, Greens NSW Upper House MP
Amy Gordon, Australian Youth Climate Coalition
Simon Butler, Socialist Alliance Spokesperson
Simon Bradshaw, Australian Conservation Foundation

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Phil Bradley, the Greens candidate for Parramatta in the NSW state election is on Facebook. Remeber to click the “Like” button.

Phil Bradley, Greens Candidate for Parramatta

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Public Rally to Save the Old Kings School Site

Keep Public Lands in Public Hands

11 am Tuesday 11 January 2011 in Parramatta

Meet in Prince Alfred Park near the corner of Marsden & Market Streets for speakers prior to visiting the OKS site opposite. Bring your placards and voice your opinion! Do you support keeping this beautiful river front heritage site as a public arts and cultural educational precinct for Western Sydney? If so, please come!

Speakers will include Greens MLC David Shoebridge, Chrissie Ianssen of STOKS, and Parramatta Greens candidate Phil Bradley.
For more information see http://www.facebook.com/oldkingsschool

Image: Abandoned Institution, Creative Commons Licence

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Oatlands Golf Course have made a Development Application to double the size of the dam on the Vineyard Creek. It is being opposed by residents and the Vineyard Creek Reserve Committee. The proposal wants to exploit a natural resource at community expense while potentially constricting the small amount of water that might flow down the creek. While the proposal requires deepening of the dam, the water in the dam even in its current form rarely fills up making the proposed deepening of little real benefit. Please contact your local councillor to vote against the proposal.

NSW approves V8 Street Car racing in Olympic Park over community objections. Key among the issues is the permanent damage to the park and to its world class reputation as an ecologically sustainable precinct. The Govt. plans to waste upto $90 million on this event over 5 years. Problems include the loss of 489 trees with upto 1000 tress under potential threat, demolishing and rebuilding of 3.5 km of road and causing unnecessary disruptions and road closures for upto 10 weeks.

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