The Greens have retained their seat on Canada Bay Council, with Pauline Tyrrell being re-elected. Thank you very much to everyone who helped with the campaign and voted for the Greens on September 8. Pauline warmly invites you to contact her on 0438 694 652 if you have any questions or problems with Canada Bay […]
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Cyclists in Canada Bay are well aware of several blackspots in local cycling infrastructure, for example, the corner of Lyons Rd West and Bayview Rd. The Greens’ new Bike Blackspot iPhone App can send a message to the NSW Government telling them that this corner in Canada Bay is a hazardous spot for cyclists and
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A 2010 study by the Health Effects Institute (HEI) in the USA entitled “Traffic-Related Air Pollution: A Critical Review of the Literature on Emissions, Exposure, and Health Effects” found children living within 500 metres of a major road or freeway are at greater risk of developing asthma, while adults face an increased likelihood of lung
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A new motorway may provide some short-term relief to congestion, but within a short time the extra road capacity generates more traffic than there was before. In the long term motorways just allow congestion to grow further: they don’t reduce it. The continuing debate on the M4 east and spending billions of dollars on a
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Below is a snapshot of Pauline’s council activities. The Draft Canada Bay Comprehensive Local Environment Plan (LEP) 2012 The draft LEP is intended to establish broad controls for future land use and development across Canada Bay. It came back to Council with amendments, after receiving 226 submissions while it was on exhibition. A separate report
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Protect Canada Bay from Coal Seam Gas (CSG) Exploration Pauline Tyrrell at “No CSG Rally’ on 1 May 2012 Pauline Tyrrell was one of 4,000 people who rallied outside State Parliament recently to stop CSG mining under both the Sydney metropolitan area and in prime agricultural land all over NSW. There is growing concern that
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On 30th April 2012, Ms. Kasy Chambers (executive director) released a report on how affordable it is to rent in Australia. The report, entitled: “Rental Affordability Snapshot” demonstrates how the private market has failed Australians from a low socio economic background. On a weekend in April 2012, Anglicare agencies undertook research of rental properties that
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On the 7th June, The Inner West Courier ran an article on the Canada Bay Greens Candidates for the local election.
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The future of the most cost effective renewable energy technology in NSW is now at risk. The capacity to cut 17 million tonnes of CO2 from the state’s greenhouse gas emissions while creating 4,000 new jobs could be lost if the $10 billion worth of wind farm developments currently proposed for NSW are driven away
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Jacqui was born in England and came to Australia as a young adult. She is married with three daughters. Jacqui trained as a TAFE teacher when she arrived in Australia and worked in country TAFE colleges before moving with her family to the Inner West. Jacqui worked as a teacher of ESL before focussing on supporting
