March 12, 2010
Ashfield Greens have been meeting at the Summer Hill Community Centre 10 years this March. Their first meeting was held at the old Summer Hill Community Centre on 29 March 2000 with Greens MP Ian Cohen and ten local people in attendance, including two of our current active members, Indi Bell and Julie Foreman. The group have come a long way since then becoming very active in the local community and helping to promote environmental sustainability. The Greens had three Ashfield Councillors elected in 2004 and again in 2008. The group celebrated their anniversary holding a discussion forum on the future of electricity.
NSW Greens MP John Kaye attended the Ashfield Greens forum to congratulate the group on its tenth anniversary.
Dr Kaye told the forum that NSW government plans to build two new coal fired power stations would increase the state’s greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent. Dr Kaye said: “The NSW government is treating scientific and community concern about the effect of climate change with contempt. With the rest of the developed world working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the government risks making NSW an international pariah.
“A clean energy future will do more than reduce greenhouse gas emissions and protect the environment.
“It will bring job and energy security and help keep power bills lower,” Dr Kaye said.
For further information on John Kaye’s No New Coal campaign please refer to : No New Coal Campaign Website
NSW Greens MP Dr John Kaye congratulating Indi Bell (left) and Julie Foreman
February 27, 2010
Mike was the lynchpin of our group, then SHAG, during a critical period of transition, from around the time when our first three Greens were elected onto Ashfield Council in 2004 and during the challenging period after, until he moved away in 2006. During his time with us he took on the positions of Convenor of our group as well as manager of campaigns that ranged from Federal to Local Government By-Elections.
Mike put his heart and soul into everything he did, and he is inextricably linked with our success and growth during that period. He had strong leadership and communication skills, yet was unassuming and willing to step in at every level that was required. At a personal level he was caring, supportive and engaging, displaying as much concern for those he interacted with as the work he gave his time and energy to. These qualities made him not only much liked but enabled him to garner the support he needed. His tragic and untimely death at 52 is a huge loss to those who knew him, to the Greens and to progressive causes everywhere.
November 25, 2009
Ecomonic Development
MAYORAL MINUTE
ASHBIZ EXCELLENCE IN BUSINESS AWARDS
I along with Councillors Kennedy, McKenna, Stott, Wangmann, Lofts, Rerceretnam and Acting General Manager Stephen Joannidis attended the inaugural Ashbiz Excellence in Business Awards on Wednesday 18 November 2009 held at the Nilla Reception Lounge Liverpool Road Ashfield.
It was a resounding success both from the organisational point of view as well as the number of businesses nominated for awards.
The theme of the night was the recognition of businesses who have served the Ashfield area for 20 years or more. A wide range of business services were presented with their long service plaques by Councillors representing their Ward.
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August 15, 2009
Ms Eva Griffith was one of the founding members of the Ashfield Greens (formally Summer Hill Ashfield Greens) in 1996. Eva had many sides; she had strong political convictions relating to the environment and social justice but yet also had a strong love of music and painting. She was a member of the Woodstock Group which met regularly at ‘Woodstock’in Burwood during the 1980s and 1990s. She played the flute and obo.
Eva was also a generous person. After coming across a small inheritance from a friend, she financially sponsored an SSO composer, who in turn composed orchestral pieces in honour of Eva.
Eva was an extremely humble, gracious, happy, fair, loving and hard working person. All who knew her grew to love her.
She left behind a loving family, missed by her twin sister Laurie, and partner David.
June 10, 2009
We would like to congratulate Woolworths on taking the first tentative baby steps toward discouraging shopping trolleys from being abandoned in Ashfied’s streets. A lone coin operated trolley was recently spotted in Woolworths trolley park outside their Ashfield Mall supermarket.
The Greens have long campaigned for coin operated trolleys as a way to stop abandoned shopping trolleys from littering Ashfield’s streets.
While pleased with this event, we are scratching our heads a bit as to how this will work in practice. Are highly conscientious shoppers expected to queue to use to use the lone trolley? With no other trolleys to lock your trolley to we are at a bit of a loss to know how to get our coin back - perhaps we are expected to use an honour system? Despite these setbacks we can know one supermarket has taken the most minuscule of steps in the right direction.
May 25, 2009
A new website for the NO LEWISHAM TOWERS campaign has been launched: www.nolewishamtowers.org
We will post all news relating to this development to keep you up-to-date, and will put up notices of any campaign events.
This website has details about the plans for this massive overdevelopment.
It has the draft resolution from the public meeting of the 20 May.
The Your Say section allows you to share your thoughts, letters, submissions with the community.
We are also looking for official supporters for the campaign. If your business, or community group, or even yourself as an individual, would like to become an official supporter of the NO LEWISHAM TOWERS campaign send an email to campaign@nolewishamtowers.org and include any associated logo.
Thank you for your support so far. Together as a community we can stop this development if we all do our bit.
If you have any content or ideas about this website, please let us know.
Regards,
Max Phillips & Patrick Kelso
NO LEWISHAM TOWERS
www.nolewishamtowers.org
campaign@nolewishamtowers.org
January 14, 2009
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We would particularly like to hear about what Greens members are up to, local political issues, Greens politics in general, and current Green issues.
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December 12, 2006
Keeping local Ashfield General Practitioner Dr. Kalokerinos
as a sole practice in Ashfield Mall
tabled by:
Greens Crs Marc Rerceretnam, Lance Dale, Mary Hawkins
Independent Crs Ted Cassidy (Mayor), Monica Wangmann, Caroline Stott (D Mayor)
12 Dec 2006
Dr. Kalokerinos is a lessee of Ashfield Mall.
Dr Kalokerinos has provided his medical care for a large number of local residents for a number of years and is arguably one of the most popular medical practitioners in the Ashfield CBD area.
There has been a considerable amount of community concern at a proposal to relocate all medical practitioners based in the Ashfield Mall into a single large medical centre. In response a petition was circulated for 4 weeks, with over 1,000 signatories calling on the Ashfield Mall proprietors to allow Dr. Kalokerinos to remain in his present sole practice in the Ashfield Mall.
Dr Kalokerinos has expressed his wish to remain as a sole medical practice, largely so that he may continue to provide a more personalized service to his many patients. However the owners of Ashfield Mall Abacus Ltd. claim their plan to relocate all general practitioners into a single medical centre will enhance medical facilities for Ashfield residents. This was expressed in a recent letter to Mayor Cassidy. Dr. Kalokerinos was provided a copy of this response.
We therefore move:
1/2 That Ashfield Council write to Abacus Ltd advising them that we have a 1,000 signature petition in connection with Dr. Leo Kalokerinos and asking them to reconsider their position.
1/2 That Ashfield Council request that Abacus Ltd’s reconsideration of Dr Kalokerinos’ lease be determined at least 2 weeks before the end of the lease in late December 2006.