And a week later Cumberland Council has voted to repeal the book ban 13-2. Even two of the OLC councillors crossed the floor in the end, leaving Sarkis and Christou alone in defeat.
So it seems the petitions and protesting seems to have helped - as well as pressure from both sides of state government.
Plenty of people addressed council, and many of them did live or work in the area (a few did not, which Christou is predictably trying to turn into a “people from outside our community pushing their values on you” talking point - but he’s exaggerating here).
Only four councillors didn’t vote on the original ban. Two (Sarkis and Farouqi) had a leave of absence and Rahme was unable to attend and had sent his apologies.
Hamed left the room during the vote (apparently due to threats she’d received for voting on similar matters on the past).
The more significant point is that of the six who voted for the ban, five also ended up voting to repeal it (even two from Christou’s own party).
The relevant item is: Min.729 - C05/24-506 Adoption of Library Strategy 2024 - 2027 - Post Exhibition
Whilst this coming from Christou is entirely unsurprising (it seems my days of putting him and the rest of his OLC chums at the bottom of my ballot are certainly coming to a middle), I was disappointed to see that Cummings voted in favour as well.
He had seemed to be a solid independent candidate, but this has tarnished him and I won’t be voting for him in future.
Also worth noting - whilst the Labor councillors were the only ones who voted against this and most of them did - one did cross the floor (Hussein) to vote for it and another (Hamed) didn’t stay in the room for the vote.
Its worth noting that if they’re councillors for your ward.
Bondi junction is mainly chain shops. It wasn’t owners helping, I’d imagine, but the people working there. Good on them is right. It must have been terrifying. I know that it’s almost designed to be hard to leave, there, which won’t have helped.
Who the fuck stabs a baby?! I’m so glad the guy was killed. 0 chance of rehabilitating a person like that and frankly insulting to the victims to even try.
Hope it results in easier access to free mental health programmes. Like how Port Arthur led to the expensive (and politically brave) gun buyback scheme.
That’d be ideal but you know that the perpetrator isn’t white the LNP is going to flog their heritage as the cause. Particularly as their main line of attack at the moment is “Labor is soft on migration”
I watched the press release the ABC posted, and the police said that 5 were dead “as a result of his actions”, so I’d take that to mean their tally excluded him
After the official investigation, it turned out the four bystanders who were injured were accidentally struck by police bullets that ricocheted, rather than the attacker himself.
I'm definitely not saying that's the case this time, but they're likely to be vague until they can rule something like that out.
The knife man survived in that article. A good outcome overall perhaps however I don’t understand why cops didn’t have their tasers drawn. Are they only for 95 year old women on walking frames in nursing homes?
> King Street in Newtown will become a "nirvana" according to Roads Minister Duncan Gay, who says about 120,000 people a day will use a planned tunnel under the popular retail strip.
lib/nat/alp will always be incompetents and/or grifters... the infuriating thing is we the NSW voters are dumb enough to vote for this shit over and over again.
we literally voted to privatise the power grid for this shit.
Well, the Rozelle interchange was never intended to improve traffic for the surrounding suburbs. It’s meant as an addition to the M4-M8 so they can connect to the northern side of the bay.
It works as designed™
Any “fix” they claim to do is an attempt to calm the public.
Anecdotally, when i drive the WCX to work it saves me an hour each way, but it is always empty
Tolling helps constrain demand, although I believe in the end it will be as congested as everywhere else if nothing changes in the long run (i.e. providing viable alternatives to driving).
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