Since the 2019 election we’ve seen the rorting of government funds and community grant money to benefit the Coalition at unprecedented scale. Key examples out of many: The Coalition does not deserve to be re-elected. Greens policies on corruption include mandatory, independent scrutiny of all grant program allocations; strengthening protection for whistleblowers; tracking political lobbying; …
Yesterday I met with senior nurses Alison, Stephen and Mavi from Concord Hospital, where I learned about the difficulties nurses and midwives face because they are continually understaffed. I support nurse to patient ratios because they provide better patient care, they protect nurses and midwives from burnout and they ensure better mentoring of younger nurses …
by Councillor Charles Jago A number of residents emailed me in my first term as a councillor with problems about trees, usually their neighbours’ trees causing them grief. Recently I found a great legal resource at legal publisher Lexology.com (originally written by Cordato Partners) which gives a really great overview of residents’ rights in regard …
By Councillor Charles Jago Now that the ABC has listed me as re-elected to Canada Bay Council, I would like to say thankyou to everybody who supported me in my election. Especially, thanks to everybody who helped on the campaign. For this election, the Greens have campaigned strongly on overdevelopment and the need for more …
Despite the very windy weather, Canada Bay Greens members and supporters turned out to meet and eat In Real Life at the launch of our Local Government election campaign. Cheering campaigners on was Balmain MP, Jamie Parker, who reviewed how his suburb transformed from being a working class Labor suburb to a Greens stronghold once …
By Councillor Charles Jago At Tuesday night’s meeting of Canada Bay Council (28 September 2021), Councillor Marian Parnaby moved a notice of motion entitled “Infrastructure needs in the future“. In my view, the basic idea of the motion was sound, but it lacked sufficient teeth to have any significant impact. It was a wide-ranging motion …
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by Councillor Charles Jago My Notice of Motion on high school places – written with input from the Concord High P&C – was approved at last night’s council meeting. Councillors agreed that Council would investigate commissioning a study on high school places to provide the basis to push the NSW Government to take action to …
Update 29/9/2021: Council rejected this planning proposal last night. However, the developer will now likely take it to the NSW govt to try to bypass Council. A new planning proposal on the western side of Concord West station has been lodged with Canada Bay Council, for consideration at the council meeting next Tuesday 28th September …
Planning proposal threatens high-rise in Concord West Read More »
by Councillor Charles Jago Last Sunday was National Tree Day. Many mature, critical trees in Canada Bay are in danger of being cut down in the rush for continued development. Whenever a house gets replaced with a duplex, trees are lost. In fact, all significant developments reduce our tree cover. So while Council is doing …
National tree day: let’s protect the trees we have Read More »
by Councillor Charles Jago, Canada Bay Council Canada Bay councillors have made a major error in approving the NSW government’s planned rezoning for high-rise towers in the Concord and Kings Bay precincts along Parramatta Road, given that infrastructure promised by the government has not been delivered. This overdevelopment leaves residents to face major problems including …
Council accepts high-rise rezoning proposal despite major flaws Read More »
