Hawkesbury City Councillor Nathan Zamprogno

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Before this possible development gets off the ground, the 3rd crossing must be constructed and other infrastructure must be put in place. It must also retain the rural atmosphere.

Here we go again, another Redbanks, 1000’s of new homes and no infrastructure to handle it.

ugh. I've got to get out of here.

Awful. Yet another soulless housing estate where all the houses are homogenous and developers make a fortune.

Hopefully someone bought it to keep it the way it is.

This literally makes me feel sick.

Reading who the new owner is it could well be a horse stud. Everyone jumping to conclusions with no basis.

Steve Carpenter 😱 more houses .... maybe

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I cannot believe the greed. That "normal" now means you buy a shoddy quick build kit home and whack it down on an overpriced handkerchief of dirt and turn all green areas that were natural undulations and watercourses into "Trueman show" parks like you live on a monopoly board. Is no where sacred for "natural" land?

Council will have no say. The developer has already sweetened the State gov and has his ducks in a row. He wouldn't have laid out that kind of $$ otherwise.

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Yesterday I had a chance to visit the wonderful Australiana Pioneer Village at Wilberforce. It was bustling with school holiday visitors. Members of the Pioneer Village Business Group gave me a tour and showed me the works done to resurrect the train ride, the location for the new Men’s Shed that will be built with money from the NSW Government’s MyCommunity grant fund, and the ongoing needs to preserve and enhance the heritage structures on the site.

I’ve pushed hard for money to be allocated in Council’s budget to complete a Conservation Management Plan for the site, augmented with another $20,000 from the State Government, as this will both underline the heritage at the site but form the basis of a program of works— potentially unlocking other grant monies and reducing the financial burden on the Village, or Council.

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A great family day out and so very reasonably prices. Support local.

Great stuff! 👍🏻

Social distancing?

I am a Foundation Member of the Powerhouse Museum, and have been since the 1980s.

I never thought that selling the Museum’s Ultimo site was a good idea.

Nor am I a fan of the idea that heritage properties should be demolished at Parramatta to develop a new site.

The hallmark of a good government is an ability to change its mind in the face of community concern. I am glad this has happened in this case.

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Powerhouse backflip as Ultimo site saved by Berejiklian government — The Sydney Morning Herald

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Five years after it was first announced, the Berejiklian government has made the last-minute decision to keep the Powerhouse site at Ultimo open.

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Yes, they have done the right thing by maintaining the current Museum but they have stated they are still demolishing the Parramatta sites!! Why? Why not move McDonalds or some other commercial establishment? If the museum is staying in Ultimo, why do they need any Parramatta property. This government has no concern for our heritage in any way, shape or form, as shown by their blatent disregard for the artefacts found around the Windsor Bridge. Could you please look into the destruction of the Parramatta sites as well as the issue from today's paper re the current plan for the M9.

Do you therefore support the retention of the bridge?

Former RFS Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons has been appointed as NSW’s new ‘Resilience Commissioner’, a post that co-ordinates the reconstruction efforts after the devastating fires and floods that have struck us this year.

He visited the Hawkesbury this morning, and the Mayor of Hawkesbury, myself and other Councillors spent our time sharing what we’ve learned.

Among the issues we raised were blockages between State and Local authorities in emergency management and planning, the need to push for flood mitigation works like raising Warragamba dam, the need for funding to maintain fire trails and preparedness, the vulnerability of our critical infrastructure including power, water, sewer and comms during fires and floods, and the challenges of rebuilding when many homeowners are required to build to new fire-ratings and planning codes which didn’t apply to the houses they lost.

I’m increasingly impressed with the Commissioner’s ability to listen and cut to the core of issues. He’s a no-nonsense, practical man.

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Yesterday, there were reports of what was undoubtedly an expensive project to replace the internationally recognised "Australian Made" kangaroo logo with... I dunno, a coronavirus? A grain of pollen? A gold atom?

Today, that idea has been sent down the memory-hole, with a press-release that sounds exactly like a panicked backdown. There's no admission of responsibility about the original intent, which was indeed to replace the kangaroo logo, or an accounting of how much money was spent on this, or why it passed through so many gatekeepers without anyone saying "are you insane?"

What a complete and utter ballsup. The very least they could have done was be honest about making a mistake.

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Well done Nathan. A real balls-up, I agree. Kinda surprised to hear you so publicly call out the federal Liberal party, like this. Simon Birmingham approvd the project (although never designed to replace the Aust Made logo, but instead the boomerang logo used on Australia Unlimited in trade promotions.) I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for any sort of admission of a mistake though. Scomo's Hawaiian holiday during the bushfire crisis was a much greater PR disaster than this, and we still haven't heard any sort of admission on that front...

Thank goodness someone, somewhere found a thread of commonsense. 🇦🇺

Couldn't agree more mate! Are these muppets even Australian?

Wasn’t it headed up by Malcolm Trumbull?

Waste of money

What a joke

10 Million for a Logo design, who ever heard of such a thing, really ?.. Sounds more like OUR TAX Money being filtered to Liberal Party Corporate Buddies, funnelling and stealing what is Ours, not yours, as it belongs to the people, who own the Commonwealth ! Smoke and Mirrors, don't pretend like you don't know what is going on Nathan, your a Liberal Party member. The political Parties Corporate Government sellout of Australia and Australian's to the UN Agenda 21/30 new world order plan, your foreign mates & masters. UN, EU, WHO, The World Bank, The World Economic Forum, Like you didn't know what AU was all about, I call Bulls**t, given that both Corporate Political Parties, Liberal & Labor signed up to the UN Agenda 21/30 plan in the late 80's/90's, You BOTH support the One World Campaign, so both of you serve the same masters. Suddenly you would have us all believe that you as a Liberal, is shocked by the implementation of the UN stuff, really ? All being approved and coming out of our bureaucratic departments, governed and implemented by you, the Liberals.. Your Liberal ministers State & Federal all signing off and implementing it !... It's All Liberal & Labor political party policy, of which all Government departments are implementing the UN policies under your Political Party instructions..... and you didn't know. How many times has UNESCO polices within Hawkesbury Council policy documents hit your desk ... btw your Master George Soros announced in 2009 that China would be the Leader of the new One World Government, I suppose you didn't know about that either ... Under the CCP, that would be a One World Marxist Communist Government, and no Allied Forces left to save the Day... btw the CCP already has it's "master race" it's called the Han Chinese, of which you all aren't. So at the end of the day once they have used you all as a means to an end in bringing in their UN Agenda 21/30 new world order plan... I wonder what will happen to you all when your usefulness and use-by-date is up... just saying

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Be engaged in your local democracy! Tonight's Council meeting is going live on YouTube now (6:30pm Tuesday). Feel free to join us.

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