Working hard for the Hawkesbury community

Superintendent Karen Hodges has been with NSW RFS - Hawkesbury District since the late 1980s. Now, after over 35 years of service, she is moving on. Council brought a motion of thanks and farewell, which I was happy to support.

I once wrote a monograph on the early history of the Richmond School of Arts building, one of our architectural gems opened in 1866 and still operating today. Here is the historical piece I wrote if it is of interest.

Have you noticed how nasty politics has become? I’m tired of it, and I suspect you are too. Thankfully, all such problems can be solved with an election. Read my new editorial appearing in the latest edition of the 'Hawkesbury Post'.

On June 14th the Australian Electoral Commission released their proposed new seat boundaries in NSW for the upcoming Federal election.
You may have seen headlines about the seat of North Sydney being abolished, and NSW losing a seat overall in the Parliament, but what does the redistribution mean for people living in the Hawkesbury and the Blue Mountains, in the seat of Macquarie?

Hawkesbury Radio Interview with "Sparky Sean" Carroll –June 9th 2024

It was a rare privilege to sit and record the memories of Bruce Robertson earlier this week with Kathryn Gene from Pulse 89.9FM Radio.
It’s hard to encapsulate just how much Bruce's extraordinary 104 year life has taken in. Watch this amazing interview.

On Monday Pulse 89.9FM Radio presenter Kathryn Gene interviewed me on air about local issues in her segment 'In Topic'.
Ranging from the state of our roads, recovery from floods, the pressure for development and the upcoming Council elections, check out this video in case you missed it.

A rare "rain bomb" again plunged the Hawkesbury-Nepean River and the communities that live and work along its banks into crisis between April 5-7, and another flood washed through the area. Here's what it looked like.

This year is a Council election year. The biggest question facing voters is "What do you want the future of the Hawkesbury to be?" So, we're launching the "futureofthehawkesbury.com" to ask people what their views are. Take a survey or sign a petition!

Sydney has a problem: An addiction to endless growth.
It's gradually eroding the things that make areas on the fringes of our major cities such lovely places to live, such as the Hawkesbury district in north-west Sydney. The March edition of the Hawkesbury Post contains a text version of this article.

Among the proposed projects Hawkesbury Council promised to fund with a 2018 rate-hike was the sealing of Packer Road, a key east-west road linking the Putty Road travelling north from Wilberforce, and the river communities of Lower Portland, Cumberland Reach and Sackville. With no commencement visible, residents were rightly upset when a report to Council's February 2024 meeting recommended the project be shelved. This is what happened next.