Lorrie Graham: Why I'm fighting to stop WestCONnex
Lorrie Graham is one of Australia's most eminent photojournalists and a long-time Newtown resident. She's been documenting the impact of the WestCONnex tollway and the community campaign against it for almost two years. She explains why she got involved ahead of her upcoming exhibition, Save Sydney Park: Adopt a Tree, this weekend.
Read moreSave Sydney Park: Adopt A Tree
Premier Mike Baird wants to destroy hundreds of Sydney Park trees and take 14,000m2 of the park for WestCONnex. The tollway will also leave Sydney Park next to a monstrous spaghetti interchange, unfiltered pollution stacks and six-lane highways choking with traffic.
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EXHIBITION TO HIGHLIGHT WESTCONNEX SYDNEY PARK DESTRUCTION
A NEW exhibition at The Corner Gallery in Stanmore will showcase the beauty and importance of Sydney Park and its trees to highlight its planned destruction by WestCONnex.
Read moreWATCH: Melbourne Cup parody, The WestCONnex Handicap
We're loving this this WestCONnex-themed Melbourne Cup parody by Margaret Carey, John Bartholomew, and Lewis and Robert Monson. Which horse will win in Mike Baird's race to stuff up Sydney: White Elephant? Dodgy Figures? Systemic Corruption? Definitely not Daily Commuter or Honest Taxpayer.
Read moreWATCH: Short film on the campaign to Stop WestCONnex
Last month, the makers of the Tunnel Vision documentary about the successful campaign to stop Melbourne's East-West Link came to Sydney for their film's premiere. They met with members of WestCONnex Action Group to talk about the battle to save Sydney from the similarly disastrous WestCONnex tollway. Take a look.
Read moreWESTCONNEX COMPULSORY ACQUISITIONS SILENT VIGIL, ST PETERS, 9:30AM
RESIDENTS will hold a silent vigil in St Peters at 9:30am today as 62-year-old Shelley Jensen is forced from her home for WestCONnex.
Read moreWESTCONNEX WORKERS LEAVE SYDNEY PARK FOLLOWING SUSTAINED COMMUNITY CAMPAIGN
WESTCONNEX contractors began packing up their Sydney Park construction compound on Euston Road today following a huge community campaign to stop the works.
Read moreWATCH: WestCONnex destruction in Sydney Park
On Friday 7 October, police forcibly dragged residents away from the WestCONnex construction compound on Euston Rd, Sydney Park, so that contractors for the Sydney Motorway Corporation could start destroying trees at the park.
Read morePOLICE DRAG RESIDENTS AWAY TO ALLOW WESTCONNEX TO DESTROY SYDNEY PARK TREES
POLICE forcibly removed up to 50 residents from WestCONnex’s Sydney Park construction compound after the locals peacefully attempted to stop the destruction of trees in the park.
Read moreSAVE SYDNEY PARK BLOCKADE BUILDS AS THOUSANDS FLOCK TO WESTCONNEX PROTEST FESTIVAL
THOUSANDS of people flocked to the family-friendly Save Sydney Park Festival on Saturday 1 October to protest the destruction of Sydney Park, and support the anti-WestConnex blockade on Euston Rd.
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