The Weekly Times - 21st November 2018

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4 THE WEEKLY TIMES Wednesday 21 November, 2018 Referendum for house density Dear Sir A letter in last weeks TWT November 7, by Tony says it all about MPs waking up! Trouble is they are all still dreaming about winning the next election without a silly scandal or diversion between now and then. Ryde council is pretending that they don’t sanction high rise? Then why not fight the State government in a vote by all residents who live in the area and get tough with Gladys? Now they send us a stupid manor house proposal pamphlet by the State Government medium density code. I went to a meeting by John Alexander and Kelly O’Dwyer on foreign investment about three years ago and my question was “do you have bi partisan support for this idea on foreign investment of NEW dwellings?” A pause then the answer: No. I then said by the time you do get support, the apartments will be built, the cranes will be gone and they will get sold and in some cases whole floors of apartments to foreign investors. Where are we now? Just look out of any high vantage point like old channel 10 site/ Meadowbank/ Ermington/ to late Ryde council you let this lot through your gates, and if you don’t like it protest strongly, not a weak “looks like we object” instead of being a rates and tax collector for yourself and the State Government. PAUL DAWSON Remembrance Day Committee thanked HUNTER’S HILL COUNCIL HUNTER’S HILL COUNCIL Letters to the Editor Dear Sir, Having just returned from the City of Ryde’s Remembrance Day Commemoration Service at Meadowbank Park where those gathered were moved to reflect on and give thanks for the service of those who defended our freedom in times of war, I wish to acknowledge the role played by the Centenary of Anzac and Commemoration of World War I Committee. This group of people, led by Clr Jerome Laxale and supported by all councillors and council staff, has worked since 2012 to plan, organise and execute events and activities to recall the passage of time over the course of World War I from 1914 to 1918 and the decades since that ‘’war to end all wars’’. The committee has also been supported by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs. Now, 100 years since the guns fell silent on the Western Front, the committee has disbanded after a voluntary job well done. LYN LANGTRY East Ryde Politicians ignore terrorist attacks Dear Sir. It sickens me to the stomach how after every terror attack on Australian soil useless politicians come out with the same spiel and BS. . How we can rise above this latest incident, how we should all stick together, that we are all one etc. etc. Tell that to the families of those that have lost loved ones to these attacks you idiots, or those that have been injured or to our brave first respondents that attend these scenes of mayhem and sorrow. What did you think was going to be the outcome when you lot in Canberra have flooded our country with migrants, so called asylum seekers, and refugees from third world countries where in many instances there is no rule of law. By my count there have been at least five terror attacks perpetrated in Australia against Australian citizens by people our stupid politicians and bu- reaucrats have granted refugee status to. There have been dozens more foiled all costing the Australian tax payers about six hundred million dollars per year to monitor and police. How many more out there enjoying the benefits this great country has to offer, are at this minute planning more attacks. It is clear to me that in trying to convince themselves,us, and the world, what a great multicultural country we are, the boofheads in Canberra have changed our once beautiful and innocent way of life, for ever. TONY IKONOMOU Hunters Hill Statement from David Elliott MP Dear Sir, I am deeply sorry for the hurt my comments have caused Ms Raper. I have every intention of respecting Ms Raper’s wishes and letting her get on with her life and will be making no further comments. DAVID ELLIOTT MP NSW Parliament Sydney Promoting mega developments? Dear Sir, So what is it with this Council promoting mega developments? This proposed secret deal to allow a 65 storey apartment block in Macquarie Park is obscene. Mayor Laxale and his green alliance voted to approve this development to be sent to the Department of Planning (isn’t that a bit weird that The Greens supported this?) but is now trying to tell us he didn’t do it. What the? The facts as we know them: Mayor Laxale and the Greens voted for this. Almost half of the Councillors weren’t even in the meeting when the vote took place. At almost 250 metres, this will be the biggest tower in the region. And the Mayor is now trying to tell us he doesn’t like LETTERS Welcome TWT welcomes letters from our readers. Full name, address and telephone number MUST be supplied, even if not for publication. Send to: TWT PO Box 123, Ryde 1680 or email: contactus@weekly times.com.au it. Really? Well, Mr Mayor, what we don’t like is the flippant way you are dealing with Council decisions. We don’t like that you make decisions to suit your political campaign. Running for state parliament is one thing but using us residents and the Council as a political football is just not on. You need to decide: Are you going to look after the interests of the residents of Ryde or are you going to look after the interests of your mates in Macquarie Street? You have to decide because we are getting a bit sick of the politicking. KIM AKBARIAN Email Commenting on Mark Latham Dear Sir, Is Mark Latham, politician and prolific writer including his book of quotations “A Conga Line of Suckholes”, the most despised political figure in modern times? Maybe so, but from December 2003 to January 2005, Latham was Federal Labor Opposition Leader - and from my memory, made a very successful and controlled contribution making the then PM Howard look very ordinary indeed. For Latham’s effort, Labor was defeated at the 2004 federal election with a 38 percent primary vote. Howard continued to ride on the back of huge receipts from the mining boom and the rest is history including the long term impact that 2004 federal election may have had on the AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA DAY AWARDS DAY 2019 AWARDS 2019 AUSTRALIA DAY AWARDS 2019 Call for Call Nominations for Nominations Call for Nominations Latham demeanour. Lisa Miscamble Lisa Miscamble GENERAL MANAGER GENERAL MANAGER JOHN FRYER Ryde Is aircraft noise sharing a myth? Dear Sir, So we all think that there is aircraft noise sharing. I don’t think so. As we know, aircraft must Hunter’s Hunter’s Hill Hill Council is is searching for for the the 2019 2019 Australia Australia Day: Day: land/takeoff into the wind. ill Council Hunter’s is searching Hill Council for the is searching 2019 Australia for the Day: 2019 Australia Day: Airservices Australia have written that there is a five knot wind • Citizen Citizen of the of Year the Year limit for landing/takeoff at Sydney Airport. Citizen of the Year Young Citizen Citizen of the of the Year Young • Young Citizen Citizen Sportsperson/Sports of Young the Year of Citizen the Year of Team the of Year Wind speed below five knots the Year at the airport is not usual during Sportsperson/Sports Community Sportsperson/Sports Team Event/Community of the Year Team Project of of the Year flight times 6am to 11pm (look at Bureau of Meteorology readings). Community • Sportsperson/Sports Event/Community Event/Community Team Project of the of Year the Year Project of the Year Do you know someone who has done countless volunteer hours for a This means it is wind direction service organisation, a local sporting or community group or an and speed over five knots which w someone Do • you educational Community who know has someone done facility? Event/Community countless who has volunteer done Do you know someone who Project countless hours has an of outstanding the volunteer for a Year hours for determines a which runways are anisation, service achievement a local organisation, sporting their work, or a sport local community or sporting studies? group or community or an group or an used. It is Mother Nature who determines which runways are used, l facility? Do you educational know Do you someone know facility? someone who Do you has who know done has someone countless an outstanding who volunteer has an outstanding not politicians and public servants. nt hours in their achievement Hunter’s for work, a service Hill sport Council in organisation, their in studies? conjunction work, sport local with or the sporting studies? Australia or Day community Council invites group you or an to nominate educational this individual facility? or group Do you for the know 2019 someone Hunters Hill who At Sydney airport, controllers has an Australia outstanding Day Awards. don’t decide to move aircraft ill Council Hunter’s conjunction Hill Council achievement with in conjunction the Australia in their with work, Day the Council sport Australia or invites studies? Day Council invites to another runway just for noise inate you this to individual nominate or this group individual for the or 2019 group Hunters for the Hill 2019 Hunters Hill sharing reasons, they must follow wind speed and direction The Awards are presented at an official ceremony to be held on Australia ay Hunter’s Awards. Australia Day Hill 26 January Council Day Awards. 2019. in The conjunction Awards allow with us to the recognise Australia the Day criteria. For the coming week, look at Council contributions invites you that to individuals nominate and organisations this individual make or to group our community for the website Seabreeze which s the are The 2019 presented each Awards Hunters year. at are an Hill presented official Australia ceremony at Day an Awards. official to be ceremony held The Awards Australia to be are held on Australia is a very accurate prediction of uary presented Day 2019. 26 The at January Awards official 2019. allow ceremony The us Awards to to recognise be allow held on the us Australia to recognise Day the wind speed and direction. Current indications are that ns 26 that January contributions individuals Nomination 2019. forms and that can organisations individuals be completed and online make organisations to downloaded our community make from Council’s to our community the only time the wind is predicted to drop below five knots each website year. www.huntershill.nsw.gov.au. Forms are also available from the is next Friday from the South in Customer Service Centre, 22 Alexandra Street, Hunters Hill, 8.30am- Nomination forms can be completed online or downloaded from the very early morning which is 4.30pm, Monday to Friday. For more information how you can in the middle of the curfew. forms Council’s Nomination can nominate website be completed forms an individual www.huntershill.nsw.gov.au/AusDay2019. can online be completed or downloaded online from or downloaded Council’s from Council’s or group please email By looking at indicated wind w.huntershill.nsw.gov.au. Forms website council@huntershill.nsw.gov.au are also www.huntershill.nsw.gov.au. available Forms from the or are phone Customer also 9879 available Forms 9400. Service are from also Centre, the available from speed the and direction, it is easy to determine when the noisy Service 22 Alexandra Customer Centre, Street, Service 22 Alexandra Hunters Centre, Street, Hill, 22 Alexandra 8.30am-4.30pm, Hunters Hill, Street, 8.30amonday Monday Hunters to Hill, 8.30am- planes will land over our head Friday. 4.30pm, to For Friday. more Monday For Nominations information more to Friday. information Close please For Friday more email on 16 how November information council@huntershill. you can 2018on how you can and when we will have some peace. n nsw.gov.au individual nominate or or group an phone individual please 9879 or 9400. email group please email This coming week, for Hunters Hill and surrounds, it looks untershill.nsw.gov.au council@huntershill.nsw.gov.au or phone 9879 9400. or phone 9879 9400. like peace until around noon on Lisa Miscamble Nominations Close Friday 23 November GENERAL 2018 Wednesday, when a Southerly Nominations Close Nominations Friday 16 Close November Friday 2018 16 November MANAGER 2018 wind blows in. This will result in overhead aircraft noise until probably Friday morning when wind TWT 17.10.17 00 x 0 swings more to the North. Can’t see any opportunity for noise sharing here. TONY SAUNDERS Hunters Hill Hunters Hill Guest Column A Labour of love working with Kevin Bates on his new book Each week, for more than 10 years, Father Kevin Bates SM has published a reflection in the bulletin at the Holy Name of Mary parish in Hunters Hill. The articles speak to our inner and outer worlds. They touch on every part of lifefrom faith, love, life and death, to justice, the church and cricket! In what has been a labour of love, I’ve worked with Kevin throughout the year to bring these pieces together into a collection called Glimmers of Grace. DANIEL DOMINGUEZ - an exquisite artist from Hunters Hill who specialises in figurative sculpture - has drawn 39 pen and ink illustrations that accompany each chapter. The result is a gorgeous book that’s covered in real cloth and has silver shells that glimmer in light on the front. We wanted to make State Govt love of privatisation First the Commonwealth Bank was privatised; it had been a means of moderating the banking industry. Now look at it. The Australian Mutual Provident Society (AMP), was a mutual society, then privatised and it went mad. The State’s electricity generating industry was To The POINT with Juliette O’Brien running well at reasonable charges then it was privatised. Now besides just higher prices or their distributers sell the power at or above the maximum specified voltage. This means that things like your refrigerator, vacuum cleaner etc. will consume more power but not necessarily with any better performance. This costs us all more money. Effectively stealing from us. And now we have sold off the Land Titles office to a private company. Just wait and see how this affects privacy, costs, service and security. PETER ALWAY Hunters Hill something that was physically beautiful to honour the contents between the covers. The books make wonderful Christmas presents too! If you’re familiar with Kevin’s reflections already, you’ll know that they’re deeply humane. They are watchful, wise, questioning, challenging, laced with humour, and always original, these reflections feed mind and spirit. They appeal to a wide audience — not just Catholics, or the parish — and are relevant to our times with insights into politics, society and events. Working with Kevin this year to collect and edit those reflections has been a priv- It has allowed me standings, challenge my perspectives, and We hope that this collection allows you We’re also having one in the community ilege and a blessing. to deepen my under- contemplate profound Kevin’s words in my own time. to do the same. You more book can find about (and order out this one) at www.glimmersofgracebook.com. a bit of bash to celebrate the book’s launch at 6.30pm on vember Tuesday, 27, at No- the Hunters Hill Club (Madeleine Street, Hunters Hill). Every- is more than welcome. Juliette O’Brien from Hunters Hill is the Editor of Glimmers of Hope. Juliette O’Brien is pictured with Father Kevin Bates SM and artiest Daniel Dominguez. TWT on-the-spot PHOTO LETTERS Continued Crown Street Girls Reunion success Dear Sir, We held the school reunion for Crown Street Girls Intermediate High School on Thursday November 8 and it was a resounding success. Our sincere thanks to you and your newspaper for putting our notice in the Community Notice Board section of your paper. Numerous contacts were made and old friendships renewed as a result. Sincerely thank-you! AILSA WAREHAM Crown Street Girls Intermediate High School Reunion Committee
Wednesday 21 November, 2018 THE WEEKLY TIMES 5 John Collins farewelled by a loving community John Gary Collins was farewelled at a packed to overflowing celebration of his life service in Hunters Hill’s All Saints Parish Church last Wednesday. Tributes were paid to him by a number of family and friends and business associates who gave glowing testimonies to the character, humanity and generosity of an outstanding husband, father, grandfather, friend and human being. Replace your old house with The Sovereign by Allcastle Homes Service was gracefully conducted by the Rector Rev Michael Armstrong with family funeral directors Mannings Funerals of Rozelle. Eulogies were presented by elder son Darren and five longtime friends and business associates including media and marketing friend David Hill, close friend and local resident Jamie Longmire, David Taylor who was CEO of the State Chamber of Commerce when John was president, longtime friend Fraser McEwing founder of Ragtrader magazine, and another longtime friend John Maiden a textile trader and customer. Among the mourners were Hunters Hill Mayor Clr Mark Bennett, Councillors and former mayor Sue Hoopmann OAM. Many of the mourners accepted the family’s invitation to join them after the service for refreshments and to share stories and memories of John’s life at the Hunters Hill Club which John was instrumental in saving when he served on the committee and as president. John’s expertise and financial acumen was well used and the continuing success of the club is testimony to his business ability and input. SEE MORE PAGE 6. 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