BAIRD AGREES TO MEET WESTCONNEX CAMPAIGNERS AFTER SIT-IN AT NSW PARLIAMENT
PREMIER Mike Baird has finally agreed to meet with residents campaigning against WestCONnex after they staged a sit-in at NSW Parliament House this afternoon.
Read moreLorrie Graham talks to Radio Skid Row about Save Sydney Park: Adopt a Tree
Acclaimed photojournalist Lorrie Graham spoke to Col Hesse on Radio Skid Row this week about why she's been fighting WestCONnex ahead of her upcoming exhibition, Save Sydney Park: Adopt a Tree. Have a listen.
Read moreLATEST WESTCONNEX ANNOUNCEMENT EXPOSES PLANNING FARCE
WESTCONNEX Action Group (WAG) has slammed the Baird government’s latest changes to the WestCONnex tollway, saying they expose the farcical planning process behind the $17 billion project.
Read moreLorrie 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 moreRIOT POLICE ARREST THREE RESIDENTS IN NEWTOWN OVER UNAPPROVED WESTCONNEX TOLLWAY WORKS
THREE residents, including journalist and activist Wendy Bacon, were arrested by riot police in Newtown on Friday morning during a peaceful protest against drilling works for the unapproved third stage of the WestCONnex toll road.
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.
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