Christol74
Reserve Grader
Hi all,
Once every 3 or 4 years politicians turn on their hearing aids for a short period of time in a phenomenon commonly referred to as the lead up to an election. What they hope to hear is nothing but the sound of their own voices. What they fear is the dreaded sound of a loud and angry group of voters demanding answers because they have to respond. Only once during this election campaign has the question over the neglected home ground of the Manly Sea Eagles been raised and it brought an immediate response from mike baird who managed to silence the issue without committing to anything. "I'll do my best" is political speak for 'Your not getting what you want but please shut up until after the election'
I believe this is the last chance for brooky and I urge every Manly Fan to call, email, and/or meet with councilors and politicians and demand an answers to the following questions?
At the last State election The Manly Warringah Sea Eagles lobbied and recieved $6million in funding from the State Labor government. Since then there has been four years of stalling tactics with community consultations , breakfast meetings and lies. Over the past four years the Federal Government has provided over $1billion dollars in funding for sports grounds around the country through the Regional and Local Community Infrastructure Program and there is only one reason that Brookvale oval missed out.
THE COUNCIL NEVER SUBMITTED AN APPLICATION AND NEITHER DID THE STATE REPRESENTATIVE MIKE BAIRD.
The Federal Labor Government would have liked nothing more than to join the State Labor government and fund the Brookvale Oval upgrade, a project that the Federal member for Warringah failed to deliver in 16 years. It did not happen because there is no way that the Liberals were going to allow a Labor plaque on such an important project to the people in the safest Liberal seat in the country.
The past four years has been smoke and mirrors and if you dont believe me ask them yourself. The only projects that Warringah council applied for was those put forward by the Greens and Labor approved every one. They have had four separate opportunities to submit a proposal for funding Brookvale and they refused to do it. In fact the only person to raise the question as to why they were not going for the Federal funding was the greens councillor most opposed to the development.
There is a council meeting tonight where Warringah Councilors will confirm their motion from last month to keep secret their plans for acquisitions and developments in the area until 8 weeks after the State Election. Who are they representing? Themselves or the State and Federal Liberal and Greens parties? It is certainly not the people who live on the peninsula.
This the last chance to make noise. Ask the councilors, ask the Liberal and Labor State canditates and ask Kenneally and O'Farrell. Otherwise it will be at least 8 years before any upgrade will be happening at Brookvale and i doubt we will still be there if that is the case..
http://203.221.217.132/council_then/documents/20110301extram.pdf
Once every 3 or 4 years politicians turn on their hearing aids for a short period of time in a phenomenon commonly referred to as the lead up to an election. What they hope to hear is nothing but the sound of their own voices. What they fear is the dreaded sound of a loud and angry group of voters demanding answers because they have to respond. Only once during this election campaign has the question over the neglected home ground of the Manly Sea Eagles been raised and it brought an immediate response from mike baird who managed to silence the issue without committing to anything. "I'll do my best" is political speak for 'Your not getting what you want but please shut up until after the election'
I believe this is the last chance for brooky and I urge every Manly Fan to call, email, and/or meet with councilors and politicians and demand an answers to the following questions?
At the last State election The Manly Warringah Sea Eagles lobbied and recieved $6million in funding from the State Labor government. Since then there has been four years of stalling tactics with community consultations , breakfast meetings and lies. Over the past four years the Federal Government has provided over $1billion dollars in funding for sports grounds around the country through the Regional and Local Community Infrastructure Program and there is only one reason that Brookvale oval missed out.
THE COUNCIL NEVER SUBMITTED AN APPLICATION AND NEITHER DID THE STATE REPRESENTATIVE MIKE BAIRD.
The Federal Labor Government would have liked nothing more than to join the State Labor government and fund the Brookvale Oval upgrade, a project that the Federal member for Warringah failed to deliver in 16 years. It did not happen because there is no way that the Liberals were going to allow a Labor plaque on such an important project to the people in the safest Liberal seat in the country.
The past four years has been smoke and mirrors and if you dont believe me ask them yourself. The only projects that Warringah council applied for was those put forward by the Greens and Labor approved every one. They have had four separate opportunities to submit a proposal for funding Brookvale and they refused to do it. In fact the only person to raise the question as to why they were not going for the Federal funding was the greens councillor most opposed to the development.
There is a council meeting tonight where Warringah Councilors will confirm their motion from last month to keep secret their plans for acquisitions and developments in the area until 8 weeks after the State Election. Who are they representing? Themselves or the State and Federal Liberal and Greens parties? It is certainly not the people who live on the peninsula.
This the last chance to make noise. Ask the councilors, ask the Liberal and Labor State canditates and ask Kenneally and O'Farrell. Otherwise it will be at least 8 years before any upgrade will be happening at Brookvale and i doubt we will still be there if that is the case..
http://203.221.217.132/council_then/documents/20110301extram.pdf