The 91自拍论坛 Party (Ye艧il Sol Parti) campaign for the May 14 Turkish general election was launched in聽western Sydney on April 22.
Western Sydney
Right-wing groups聽are leading violent protests聽in Bolivia. Juana Maldonado asks Australians to stand in solidarity with the Bolivian government and its people.
The Canterbury-Bankstown Council unanimously supported a motion condemning 鈥渁nti-Palestinianism鈥 on September 29.聽Khaled Ghannam reports.
Emergency department nurses at Blacktown and Westmead Hospitals walked out of work to protest unsustainable work conditions.聽Jim McIlroy reports.
Sydney's Kurdish community celebrated聽International Women's Day at a well-attended gathering at the Democratic Kurdish Community Centre in Kings Park. Peter Boyle reports.
Nurses and midwives across Western Sydney are protesting the lack of staff which leads to extreme strain and unsafe work conditions. Viv Miley reports.
Unionists and supporters took action outside a temporary warehouse in Prospect to protest the supermarket giant Coles' lock-out of 350 workers. Jim McIlroy reports.
The community in Western Sydney is celebrating the Independent Planning Commission鈥檚 (IPC) decision made on July 19 to dump The Next Generation鈥檚 application for a waste-to-energy incinerator at Eastern Creek that would have affected air quality throughout Sydney.
The IPC cancelled Dial a Dump Industries鈥 incinerator plan as 鈥渢he project is not in the public interest because there is uncertainty around the project鈥檚 impacts on air quality, water quality and human health鈥.
The Next Generation (TNG) wants to build the biggest waste-to-energy incinerator in the world at Eastern Creek in Sydney鈥檚 west. Local residents are defiantly opposed and have organised for more than a year to bring Labor and the Coalition onside.
At a rally outside NSW Parliament on February 6, Labor pledged it would oppose it. Tanya Davies, the local Liberal MP, told the rally that while she was concerned, the decision was a planning issue, not a government one.
After 1000 submissions were made 鈥 mostly opposed 鈥 to the proposal, TNG has submitted its third revision.
Hundreds of people gathered for the Don't Mess With the West rally outside the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre in Penrith on October 20, before marching to the electoral office of local member and Minister for Western Sydney Stuart Ayres, chanting "community health, not incinerator wealth" and "don't mess with the West鈥.
They were protesting against the controversial WestConnex road project and associated tolls on the M4 Motorway and elsewhere; the highly polluting waste disposal incinerator proposed for Eastern Creek; and the planned new airport at Badgerys Creek.
Residents鈥 groups from Sydney's west and inner-west came together in a protest outside NSW Minister for WestConnex Stuart Ayres鈥 electorate office in Penrith on June 5. New tolls are about to be introduced on the M4 motorway as part of the giant tollway and tunnel scam that is WestConnex.
Commuters from western Sydney will be charged $2000 a year in the new M4 tolls, according to a letter from Penrith Valley Community Unions NSW (PVCU) that was delivered to Ayres' office.
NSW Coalition MPs voted down a bill, 35 to 45, on May 11, that mandated registered nurses in residential aged care facilities. Labor, the Greens, the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party, as well as Independents Alex Greenwich and Greg Piper supported the bill.
The NSW Nurses and Midwives Association鈥檚 Brett Holmes said the government鈥檚 decision was 鈥渟hameful鈥 because not having skilled nurses in nursing homes would mean that the quality of care provided to some of the state鈥檚 most vulnerable would deteriorate.
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