Illawarra Greens

Media release dated March 6 2008.

The Illawarra Greens today called on the NSW Government to hold an election forWollongong City Council as soon as possible, following yesterday’s decision to sack all Councillors.
Convenor of the Illawarra Greens Jill Merrin said, “The Labor State Government’s decision to sack the Labor-dominated Council, because of systemic corruption in the majority of Labor Councillors, and replace them with Labor-selected administrators, only serves to punish the people of Wolllongong further.”

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Greens MP Lee Rhiannon and Illawarra Greens spokesperson Jill Merrin -

Media Release - 14 March 2008

New Port Kembla planning laws will lock out community

Greens MP and ports spokesperson Lee Rhiannon said today that Ports

Minister Joe Tripodi*s move to create new planning rules for Port

Kembla will rob local residents, councils and local businesses of the

opportunity to have some control over the impacts of the port.

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WOLLONGONG CITY COUNCIL MARCH 2008
The Illawarra Greens are dismayed at the level of corruption exposed during the Independent Commission Against Corruption investigations. However, it is clear that corruption has existed in Wollongong City Council for many years, and its roots spread wide and deep.

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Wollongong Against Corrution is running the
WOLLONGONG  FREEDOM TRAIN

Demand a vote to clean up our city and a Royal Commission into Corruption

JOIN THE PEOPLE’S DELEGATION AND RALLY FOR THE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT

Tuesday 12.30pm 1 APRIL

Train leaves from

10.28 am from Dapto
10.44 am from Wollongong station
10.56 am from Thirroul station

A meeting to discuss a number of significant follow-up issues from the recent WAC Public Meeting.  The meeting will be at the Fraternity Club on Tuesday 18 March at 7pm, upstairs in the Monte Carlo room.

‘Tuesday 1st April, 6.30pm-8.30pm. Light refreshments at 6.30pm.
Seminar: Coastal Sustainability and Climate Change National and Local -
The Way Ahead.

Speakers Bruce Thom and Colin Woodroffe
Venue: University of Wollongong, the McKinnon Building, Building 67.
Contact and RSVP:Russell Verdon at Futureworld 42269147

Entry: $20 adult, $15 concession and Futureworld member, Student $10.  All
welcome.

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
If you’ve ever wondered what to do about Global Warming, then you should
see this
film!!

Thursday March 20, 7pm, Aboriginal Cultural Centre, 22 Kenny Street
Wollongong

Entry by donation: $8 / $5 concession (recommended)
Organised by Green Left Weekly, Information contact 0425 329 963

When : Wednesday 19th March 2008 at 12 noon
Where : Outside the office of Lylea McMahon, Member for Shellharbour, 60
Princes Highway, DAPTO
Why: to demonstrate to the local member the depth of feeling and anger in
the community regarding her support for power privatisation.

For more information, please call the SCLC office on 4229 2888

CONTENTS

- Sylvia Hale Adjournment Speech
- Some Events of Interest
- ICEC Forum
- INQUIRY INTO ELECTORAL AND POLITICAL PARTY FUNDING
- POWER PRIVATISATION PROTEST
- FILM SCREENING: The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
- NSW ANTI-HOMOPHOBIA INTERAGENCY CONFERENCE
- NORTHERN TERRITORY INTERVENTION - A MESSAGE FROM BARBARA SHAW
- COASTAL SUSTAINABILITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE

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Regular monthly meetings are held at the:

ACON (AIDS Council of NSW) Centre,
on the corner of Ellen and Kenny Sts,
Wolllongong