Blacktown Greens

November 15, 2008 11:00 am to 1:00 pm
Join thousands of families, workplaces and communities in a walk for renewable energy and a safe climate future for our children. With vital decisions being made this year, we will Walk Against Warming to ensure the Australian Government supports strong, urgent action and justice for developing nations affected by global warming.
Look out for the Greens stall to pick up a placard.

Walk Against Warming: Parramatta

November 15, 2008 8:45 am to 9:45 am
Join concerned families, workplaces and communities in a walk for renewable energy and a safe climate future for our children.
Walk starting from the Amphitheatre (near Parramatta Town Hall and St John’s Church) and then walking to Prince Alfred Park. Afterwards to Parramatta Station for those planning to go to the collective walk from Martin Place. Walk hosted by Parracan.

Full information: www.walkagainstwarming.org

L-Plate (the “L” stands for Lousy) Premier and local MP Nathan Rees is throwing millions of dollars at a bunch of millionaire wankers who race these souped up taxis so that instead of racing on dedicated race tracks like Eastern Creek they will set a bad example to all the bogan street racers and go trundling around Olympic Park on weekends in December for the next few years.

You can read more about the negative effects at the Save Olympic Park! site.

Quite what our boy-boofhead premier thinks that V8 racing achieves is hard to assess. It’s not as though this event is going to attract hordes of visitors to our Manchester del Sol city as attendances at these races are generally dismal. Only 16k fronted up for the 2008 Eastern Creek race. This figure should be compared with those for motor racing in the 60s and 70s when crowds twice this number were common at Warwick Farm and Oran Park.

For some reason both the ALP and Liberal parties think that it is a good idea to throw taxpayers money at motor racing. The fact that schools and hospitals all across NSW and in western Sydney in particular are in dire straits seems to have escaped their notice.

The government owns the white elephant at Eastern Creek. Why you may ask yourself. The answer is that it is not viable as a commercial private operation. Given that the ALP wants to sell off everything else we own especially those enterprises which actually make a return for the state you have to ask why they want to so badly help out a bunch of retards going round in circles.

There is also the chance that after these “special events” we will see more tragedies like the one that happened in St Marys in July 2007 when the car being driven by an elderly couple was rammed street racing hoons. Who will ever forget the “I didn’t do it” sneer on the face of V8 Supercar jacketed Robert James Borkowski (now doing 9 years for his part) as he was loaded into the ambulance.

Why not let Nathan know what you think by emailing him at toongabbie@parliament.nsw.gov.au

More information on this issue can be found at the Sydney Cyclist site

Hills Community Care’s Mental Health Respite Program provides respite to carers of people with severe mental illness, and carers of people with intellectual disability, in the Cumberland Prospect region.

Respite services provided are in-home respite, centre-based day programs, social and recreational support, transport to medical appointments and carer support.

The program is accepting referrals now. Please call the Coordinator, Sharyn DiNatale on 9672-6309

Funding for this program is from Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs.

** The above is provided for community information. It is not intended to imply that The Greens or their policies are in any way endorsed or supported by the individuals or organisations mentioned.

Click image above to open in new window to see all the detail on the Youth Pride Invasion Music Festival ‘08 in Shalvey on Saturday November 1st

Until now pain has been difficult to quantify or explain qualitatively.

This is due in part by its current lack of recognition as a condition in it’s own right or as a National Health Priority Area (NHPA).

Without NHPA status, no government health body, such as the Australian Institute for Health & Welfare, is obligated to collect and report data on prevalence to the Federal Government.

Advocacy group Chronic Pain Australia has come up with an innovative project to survey Australia’s pain. If you are a sufferer or a carer The Pain is Not Invisible Project allows you to log-in to the website and answer a few simple questions about your pain experience and demographics. After this information is submitted, the Pain is Not Invisible Project website will represent the community in pain, showing the need for support and services, as lights on a map of Australia.

The Pain is Not Invisible Project is Australia’s first community commissioned and supported large-scale prevalence study, designed to paint a picture of Australia’s pain. The ability for people living with pain and their carers to log-in to the site to be counted, tell CPA where they live and about their pain experience is a unique approach which establishes direct contact with the community.

Go to the ThePainProject.org site for more information.

** The above is provided for community information. It is not intended to imply that The Greens or their policies are in any way endorsed or supported by the individuals or organisations mentioned.