WESTCONNEX Action Group has renewed its call for a public inquiry into the $16.8 billion WestCONnex toll road after two of its main contractors, Leighton Holdings (CIMIC) and Samsung, were reported to have used corrupt practices to secure billion-dollar government contracts overseas.

WestCONnex Action Group (WAG) is hosting a WestConnex Community Forum in Arncliffe on Wednesday 30 March to discuss the impact the New M5 toll road will have on the area.

RESIDENTS are now blockading the truck entrance at the WestCONnex M4 East construction site in Cintra Park, Concord, to protest the toll road’s sham approval.

PREMIER Mike Baird was confronted in Haberfield on Tuesday by dozens of local residents whose communities are set to be destroyed for WestCONnex as he attended the opening of a local patisserie.

DRILLING works for the WestCONnex New M5 toll road were stopped yesterday after residents occupied the planned construction site in Terry Street Tempe. 

WESTCONNEX Action Group (WAG) is delighted that one of its key members and spokespeople, Pauline Lockie, has been chosen by Jenny Leong MP as Newtown Local Woman of Year for her work as a community activist and passionate campaigner against the WestCONnex tollway. 

WESTCONNEX Action Group has demanded an immediate halt to the $16.8 billion WestCONnex toll road after Fairfax Media revealed more homes and businesses are likely to be acquired and destroyed to make way for the planned Rozelle and Camperdown interchanges.

WESTCONNEX Action Group welcomed the release of a new independent review of the WestConnex business case, which confirmed the $16.8 billion toll road would be unlikely to recover its cost or ease traffic congestion.

WESTCONNEX Action Group slammed today’s decision by NSW Planning Minister Rob Stokes to approve the WestCONnex M4 East toll road.

Yarra Campaign for Action on Transport (VIC), WestCONnex Action Group (NSW) and Rethink The Link (WA) welcomed the motion passed by the Australian Senate on Wednesday 3 February calling for a Federal audit into WestCONnex and the Perth Freight Link.